Published : Jun 12, 2024 11:00 IST - 4 MINS READ Contemporary fiction in English has been increasingly leaning inward, almost to the point of collapsing upon itself. Mashiul Alam’s collection The Meat Market firmly says “no” to this trend. The Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella By Mashiul Alam, translated by Shabnam Nadiya Eka Pages: 260 Price: Rs.499 …
Episodes from the Ramcharitmanas This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a selection of some of the most renowned episodes of Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas, a collection of hyper-real stories by leading Bengali writer Mashiul Alam, and a series of conversations on the psychology of war and peace. 175pp, ₹399; Harvard University Press Tulsidas’s Rāmcharitmānas, written in the sixteenth century in a …
