Anis Shivani
The scale of Trump’s resurgence confirms that his 2016 victory wasn’t a fluke.
Updated 16 Nov, 2024 09:58am
The most benign interpretation of the Trump movement is that it is a voluntary disbandment of empire.
Updated 15 Mar, 2024 10:04am
Trumpism has always been a reaction to neoliberalism’s inequities...
Published 05 Nov, 2022 07:25am
The moment a liberal panic takes off in America, the next moment it infects opinion-makers everywhere...
Published 20 Aug, 2022 04:07am
The Zee Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) came to Houston, Texas for the first time in September and it was an...
Published 30 Sep, 2018 06:28am
The situation in America resembles Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia or the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It’s a...
Published 29 Jul, 2018 07:31am
“In three or four generations the race would not be able to survive at all, would not be able to make...
Published 27 May, 2018 08:37am
Last month marked the launch of the Smithsonian Institution’s ‘Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the...
Published 25 Mar, 2018 06:15am
Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman is the first book I happened to read right after my mother died in Dallas ...
Published 21 Jan, 2018 07:03am
Novel-writing is a desperate struggle against the community imposed by the world. It is a fight against so-called...
Published 19 Nov, 2017 06:49am
I have been exploring Goethe’s concept of ‘world literature’ for a while. The questions Goethe raised become...
Published 24 Sep, 2017 06:42am
“I am a big fan of Hindu [sic].” — Donald J. Trump, Oct 15, 2016.“Nobody wanted peace more than Adolf...
Updated 12 Jul, 2017 02:30pm
TV’s greatest show ever (nearly four years after the end of the series, I consider none of its recent competition...
Updated 28 May, 2017 07:10am
“This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as prime minister and got out again ere long… Miss Mackay [the headmistress]...
Published 02 Apr, 2017 07:34am
Dylan has affected almost all literary writers of the past half century, whether or not they have directly encountered
Updated 04 Feb, 2017 12:48pm
Rumours that Paul McCartney was replaced by a lookalike in the sixties does, at some level, reflect society’s struggle
Updated 15 Jan, 2017 09:18am
How political correctness is killing literature in America
Updated 19 Dec, 2016 03:05pm
Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know is analysed as a study of the effort to transcend limitations of class,
Published 16 Oct, 2016 07:57am
The timeless works of Philip K. Dick evoke a sense of pure wonder about what it might mean to be human
Published 21 Aug, 2016 06:57am
On exploring the love affair between language and experimental poetry
Published 03 Jul, 2016 08:26am
