Bookshelf by Usawa
Across ULR and Matchbox — essays, reviews, excerpts, and interviews in conversation with books that shape our time.

Days of Recovery
by Nomita Kapur
When cancer brought Nomita Kapur’s ‘active days to a halt’, her universe shifted, without warning. Gradually, over months,...
Excerpts

tamil terrains
by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran
Questioning traditional concepts of time, place, labour, love, purity and gender, this prismatic collection of poems, translations, and...
Book Reviews

Silence Has A Sound
by Mitra Samal
Silence Has a Sound listens closely to the unspoken, tracing memory, loss, longing, and quiet resilience in everyday...
Book Reviews

The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits
by Vir Das
The Outsider is more than just a memoir about Vir's unlikely rise to comedic fame; it's a powerful...
Book Reviews

Sea, Salt and Spice
by Meher Mirza
Sea, Salt and Spice is a definitive culinary biography of Mumbai - a city shaped as much appetite...
Book Reviews

Bhima’s Wife
by Kavita Kane
Before Draupadi, there was Hidimbi. The first, the eldest Pandava daughter-in-law—a status denied to her through her life,...
Book Reviews
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