A treasure of a book, a herstory that we longed to read, full of humility and strength at the same time.

By Kohinoor Dasgupta My Ántonia was published in 1918. A kid loses both his parents within the year and, one pitch-dark Plains night in...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Mr. Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City , was published by Random House in 2023. From David Remnick’s article in The...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta British writer Gladys Mitchell (1901-1983) wrote 66 mysteries featuring Mrs. Bradley, an alienist and a Consultant...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta February 14, 2023 Pegasus by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, is a very important and frightening book about...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta In Dart , a 48-page-long poem by Alice Oswald, a river speaks in many voices. It's the Dart river, of Devon,...

Roland doesn't remember loving anyone.

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Gandhi The Years That Changed the World (2018), by Ramachandra Guha, is for everyone interested in Mohandas...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta ( Originally published in 2011 in my blog Draupadiarjun) Johan Theorin’s second book, The Darkest Room (2009), was...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on May 26, 2011 in my blog Draupadiarjun) (This review contains spoilers) The Little Stranger...

The characters on whom she trains her torch are caught skittering in the dark woods.

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on October 28, 2010, in my blog Draupadiarjun) Lots of material may be found if you do a...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Originally published on March 8, 2011 in my weblog Draupadiarjun) 'RESURRECTION' was Leo Tolstoy’s last novel,...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (About Rabindranath Tagore’s Shesher Kobita (Closing Poems); originally published on May 2, 2011, in my blog...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (originally published on September 13, 2011 in my blog Draupadiarjun) TWO SINGLES cause dilemmas of attraction in An...

(Originally published on July 15, 2011, in my blog Draupadiarjun) The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine , originally published in...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (Review of Quartet in Autumn , originally published on September 16, 2010 in my blog draupadiarjun) Barbara Pym’s...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died (Originally published in my weblog Draupadiarjun on November 1, 2010) Towards the...

Barbara Pym’s A Glass of Blessings Published in my blog Draupadiarjun on June 21, 2010 WE MISTAKE thirty-somethings to be an invention of...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta Who has been enjoying the Three Pines series (2022) on Amazon Prime? Alfred Molina stars as Chief Inspector Armand...