Prayaag Akbar remembers reading about an actress whose photograph was photoshopped and used, without her knowledge, on an online platform. “She was completely clueless about it until the media started reporting it,” says the Goa-based writer, who was in Bengaluru to launch his latest novel, Mother India. “ Second novel Mother India,which unfurls in alternating narratives, diving in and out …
For over two decades, Jeet Thayil has been compiling the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. Madhu Kapparath’s black and white images of poets like Vikram Seth, Dom Moraes, Arun Kolatkar and Thayil himself enhance the book’s value as a physical artefact and collector’s item. In a phone interview, Thayil speaks about the anthology’s making, some of the younger …
