Articles by Kunal Ray
Interview: Kripa Bhatia, artist and illustrator
The artist who is based in Mumbai has worked extensively on children’s books. Bombay Ducks, Bombay Docks (with Fleur D’Souza), a children’s book about the original inhabitants of Mumbai, which she illustrated, made it to this year’s Parag Honour List
Published on May 14, 2021 10:48 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Interview: Siddharth Chowdhury, author, The Time of the Peacock
The author of The Patna Manual of Style and Patna Roughcut returns with a new novel, The Time of the Peacock, which offers a ringside view of Indian English literary culture
Published on Apr 02, 2021 10:09 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Interview: Suresh Jayaram, author, The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook
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Published on Feb 12, 2021 04:57 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Review: The Lost Heroine by Vinu Abraham
PK Rosy is the first female actor of Malayalam cinema. However, scant regard is paid to her in the annals of film history in Kerala and beyond. Perhaps very little is known about her existence beyond select film circles. Last year, the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) in Kerala launched a film society named after PK Rosy.
Updated on Feb 05, 2021 10:02 PM IST
Kunal Ray
Interview: S Hareesh, author, Moustache, winner of the JCB prize 2020
S Hareesh talks about the role of the translator, the increasing influence of the Sangh Parivar in his native Kerala, and the opposition to his novel in the state
Updated on Nov 20, 2020 06:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Moustache by S Hareesh is a novel that integrates songs and legends in a metafictional whirlpool
Set in Kerala’s Kuttanad and featuring Vavachan, who insists on keeping his moustache in defiance of caste norms, the novel, Moustache by S Hareesh, integrates local songs, legends and myths in a metafictional whirlpool.
Updated on Oct 30, 2020 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Essay: The past is not a foreign country
The past is not easy to forget and finds ways of cohabiting with us
Updated on Oct 07, 2020 05:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Sketches - The Memoir of an Artist by KM Vasudevan Namboodiri
Filled with drawings that capture places and people, the pages of this memoir delight with sheer artistry
Updated on Jul 13, 2020 04:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Essay: On essential reading
Kerala included books on its list of essentials. This is wonderful even if it is difficult to focus during the lockdown, writes Kunal Ray
Updated on May 05, 2020 12:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Halla Bol – The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi by Sudhanva Deshpande
Personal and collective memory, interviews, diaries, and Janam archives are combined to create this portrait of the artist
Published on Apr 24, 2020 12:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Sebastian & Sons – A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers by TM Krishna
TM Krishna’s new book on mrdangam makers moves these Dalit master craftspersons from the margins to the mainstream of Carnatic music discourse
Updated on Mar 13, 2020 10:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
No escape from the cesspool
Kakanadan approaches his characters, who are whores, drunkards, prostitutes, cretins, smugglers and drug dealers, with great humanism
Updated on Feb 21, 2020 07:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Chasing the Raag Dream by Aneesh Pradhan
Aneesh Pradhan’s book analyses music policy, the overseas performance network, and corporate patronage, among other critical matters, and goes beyond conventional writing on Hindustani classical music
Updated on Nov 08, 2019 07:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: One Hell of a Lover by Unni R
Unni R’s stories deal with a perverse masculinity
Updated on Oct 18, 2019 08:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Reel India by Namrata Joshi
A sea of people and their stories of admiration, love, dejection, despair, failure and aspiration, all linked with cinema are at the core of Namrata Joshi’s book
Updated on Sep 27, 2019 10:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Out of Syllabus by Sumana Roy
There are fresh discoveries on every page of Out of Syllabus, Sumana Roy’s debut collection of poetry.
Updated on Aug 24, 2019 07:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: The Hungryalists by Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
A study of the Hungry Generation Poets, who took the Bengali literary establishment in Kolkata by storm in the early 1960s, The Hungryalists also presents a portrait of the city
Updated on Jul 12, 2019 07:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Beyond the Boulevards – A Short Biography of Pondicherry by Aditi Sriram
The city, which remains the perennial tourist destination in the larger Indian imagination, offers a combination of spirituality with the mirth of the sea
Updated on May 03, 2019 05:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: Strike a Blow To Change The World by Eknath Awad
Dalit writer activist Eknath Awad’s autobiography chronicles his own life and that of others like him and makes the reader confront her own privilege
Updated on Mar 29, 2019 05:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
Review: The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan by Namita Devidayal
From his pride in his Mercedes to his rivalry with Pt Ravi Shankar, Namita Devidayal’s portrait of Vilayat Khan catalogues the events of the sitar maestro’s life
Updated on Feb 15, 2019 05:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kunal Ray
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