Articles by Sonya Dutta Choudhury
Book Box: Reading China - Part 2
China feels vibrant and welcoming; exploring Shanghai's bookstores reveals a mix of modernity and hidden complexities in literature and society.
Updated on May 04, 2025 01:47 PM IST
Book Box : Reading China - Part 1
Traveling from Hong Kong to Mainland China, I reflect on the rapid transformation of China while reading insightful books that reveal its complex history.
Updated on Apr 27, 2025 01:28 PM IST
Book Box: Raju Tai’s Guide to Disobedient Creativity
Discover how romance novels and poetry become ways of healing and rebellion in this conversation with Raju Tai. Plus upcoming summer writing workshops.
Updated on Apr 20, 2025 12:45 PM IST
Book Box: Measuring summer by its stories
Summer has transformed from nostalgic days of reading and mangoes to air-conditioned escapes and new literary adventures, reflecting personal growth.
Updated on Apr 13, 2025 12:45 PM IST
Book Box: Persuasive Storytelling with Bollywood scriptwriter Atika Chohan
From bluffing her way into Yash Raj Studio bathrooms to changing laws with films, here is how Atika Chohan turns scripts into social change
Updated on Apr 06, 2025 01:00 PM IST
Book Box | Literary Lunch: The Burden of Self-Promotion
Unpacking why writers struggle with self-promotion and how to overcome this
Updated on Mar 30, 2025 12:45 PM IST
Book Box: The book Facebook doesn’t want you to read
A tech whistleblower's tale, Careless People is full of ugly truths we need to know
Updated on Mar 23, 2025 01:29 PM IST
Book Box: Meet Parul Bavishi, Co-Founder, London Writers Salon
The co-founder of London Writers Salon talks about her background in management consulting and publishing and on building a global writing community
Updated on Mar 16, 2025 01:45 PM IST
Book Box: The Feminist Library Every Home Needs
A mother's heartfelt letter to her daughter encourages building a feminist library, emphasising the power of books in challenging societal norms.
Updated on Mar 08, 2025 01:09 PM IST
Book Box: Why Handwriting (Still) Works
Handwriting assignments fostered authenticity and connection in students, enhancing creativity and learning, unlike digital submissions.
Updated on Mar 01, 2025 06:31 PM IST
Book Box | John Vaillant on Fire, Tigers, and Climate Change
From Russian tigers to global fires: A writer's call for change
Published on Feb 22, 2025 10:24 PM IST
Book Box | Lessons from Frankfurt on the Everything War
That classic German drama about selling your soul? It's actually about Amazon
Published on Feb 15, 2025 06:43 PM IST
Book Box | Why you should go to JLF
Travel to the Jaipur Literature Festival to understand our times, everything from AI and art to ancient wisdom
Updated on Feb 08, 2025 09:16 PM IST
Book Box | A Sunday Book Swap
A diminished book club finds unexpected company in a book swap organised by a bookstore.
Updated on Feb 01, 2025 11:37 PM IST
Book Box | An Evening with Amitav Ghosh
The landscapes of life and literature meet in Wild Fictions, the new book of essays by Amitav Ghosh
Published on Jan 26, 2025 09:31 AM IST
Book Box | Reading without rules
On why there are no rules when it comes to reading
Published on Jan 18, 2025 08:01 PM IST
Book Box | A Turkish anthropologist and Pico Iyer teach me where Paradise is
Travelling from Mumbai to Goa with lessons from two books, and a walk by the Arabian Sea
Published on Jan 11, 2025 08:47 PM IST
From beach meetings to Uzbekistan: How this Mumbai book club survived 20 years
Moving from paper posters at Prithvi to reading under Bukhara's Booksellers' Dome, being part of a book club turned these strangers into friends
Updated on Jan 04, 2025 10:32 PM IST
Book Box | ChatGPT, Murder Mysteries, and Poems for a Snowy Birthday
AI rivalries, murder mysteries and poems celebrate community and keep the cold away on a snowy birthday
Published on Dec 28, 2024 11:32 PM IST
Book Box | The Best Books of 2024
Here is 2024's reading roulette, the hits and misses, the best fiction, non-fiction, memoirs and crime and also my biggest disappointments
Published on Dec 21, 2024 10:41 PM IST
Book Box: The Golden Road
At a Mumbai club, William Dalrymple highlights ancient India's global impact, blending history with storytelling, captivating an Indian audience.
Updated on Dec 18, 2024 12:44 PM IST
Book Box:Why Those in Power Fear Your Bookshelf
From Mumbai’s Crowds to Irawati Karve’s Legacy— why stories are your best defence
Published on Dec 07, 2024 04:27 PM IST
Book Box: The Secrets of Winter Reading
How you can use winter to change the way you read
Published on Nov 30, 2024 10:23 AM IST
Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?
How Goodreads stats, TBRs, and prize lists are turning reading into a competitive sport—here’s how we can slow down and savour the pages.
Updated on Nov 23, 2024 10:24 AM IST
Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky
Soar into space, the sea, and serendipity with this year's Booker Prize-winning and shortlisted and longlisted novels.
Published on Nov 16, 2024 04:26 PM IST
Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books
Read these four fast-paced reads to keep you company when the silence settles in or when you want to break a reading slump
Published on Nov 09, 2024 07:08 PM IST
Book Box | Discovering Kaikeyi, the woman behind the villain
How a book I didn’t want to read ended up changing my Diwali
Published on Nov 02, 2024 03:35 PM IST
Book Box | The art of brand storytelling with Suta Sarees
Explore the art of storytelling with Taniya Biswas of Suta Sarees, where every outfit carries a tale
Published on Oct 26, 2024 08:10 PM IST
Tunnel vision: How Elif Shafak helps to see the world differently
From Istanbul's domes to Himalayan rivers, some stories wait for the right moment—have you revisited a book that finally spoke to you?
Published on Oct 19, 2024 07:13 PM IST
Book Box | Why we need to read Nobel laureate Han Kang
From unsettling truths to brilliantly bizarre storytelling, here are seven reasons why the newest Nobel laureate is a must-read
Published on Oct 12, 2024 06:34 PM IST