Chittajit Mitra

Report: Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Whither Human Rights in India - Business Standard

Report: Ghazipur Literature Festival - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Courtesans Don't Read Newspaper by Anil Yadav, translated by Vaibhav Sharma - Deccan Hera

Book review: Wonder Tales For A Warming Planet by Rajat Chaudhuri - TNIE

Op-Ed: When the State Tightens Its Grip on Literature: The Sahitya Akademi Controversy - The AIDEM

HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2025 | Hindustan Times

Interview: Malala Yousafzai “For me, there was no roadmap” - Hindustan Times

Book review: Forbidden Desire by Rajasekaran - Telegraph

Book Review: Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? edited by Rakhshanda Jalil - The Hindu

Book Review: Mujib's Blunders by Manash Ghosh - TNIE

Interview: Ajeet Cour “The Amrita Pritam sketch was difficult to write” - Hindustan Times

Book review: Nautch Boy by Manish Gaekwad - Telegraph

Book Review: The Cell and the Soul by Anand Teltumbde - Business Standard

Interview: Madhu Raghavendra “Liberate poetry from the definition of poetry itself” - The Chakkar

Book Review: Unsilenced by Seema Azad, translated by Shailza Sharma - Business Standard

Participated As A Delegate at Sahitya Akademi's International Lit Fest Unmesha

Interview: Sunny Singh “We can’t move towards justice if we can’t recognise injustice” - Hindustan Times

Interview: Aatish Taseer ‘I had an unusual parenting. My father was someone I discovered’ - Hindustan Times

Book review: Water Days by Sundar Sarukkai - The Telegraph

Book Review: Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple - Business Standard

Book Review: Letters from Gaza edited by Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer - TNIE

Translated "The Big Book of All Things Queer" by Pride Across the Bridge into Hindi

Interview: GN Devy- “There is a forest of languages growing around us” - Hindustan Times

Report: Bazm-e-Virasat - Hindustan Times

Op-Ed: Repoliticising the Indian Queer Community - The AIDEM

Book Review: Spies, Lies and Allies by Kavitha Rao

Book review: Who Is Equal by Saurabh Kirpal - TNIE

Book Review: The Undying Light by Gopalkrishna Gandhi - Business Standard

Book Review: Blackened by Vinoy Thomas, translated by Nandakumar K. - TNIE

Interview: Amol Palekar- “The middle ground is shrinking” - Hindustan Times

Report: Arunachal Literature Festival - Hindustan Times

Report: Kokrajhar Literature Festival - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Nalanda by Abhay K. - Business Standard

Book Review: The Gujaratis by Salil Tripathi - The Telegraph

Interview: Rohin Bhatt - ‘There are multiple demands from within the queer community’ - The Hindu

Report: The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2025 - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Literature Against Fundamentalism - The Federal

Report: Koshala Literature Festival - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Tripping Down the Ganga by Siddharth Kapila - Business Standard

A reader compiled a list of 103 Indian language books translated into English and published in 2024

HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2024

Book Review: In Pursuit of Freedom by Pradeep Damodaran - The Telegraph

Book Review: Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele - Hindustan Times

Book Review: A Slight Angle by Ruth Vanita - Hindustan Times

Book Review : Lal Chowk by Rohin Kumar, translated by Dharmesh Chaubey - Business Standard

Book Review : Small Rain by Garth Greenwell - TNIE

Book Review : The Menstrual Coupé by Shahina K Rafiq, translated by Priya K. Nair - Frontline

Interview: Anand Teltumbde – “Ambedkar challenged Gandhi’s Mahatmahood” - Hindustan Times

Book Review : Biopeculiar by Gigi Ganguly - Deccan Herald

Book Review: From the King's Table to Street Food by Pushpesh Pant - TNIE

Book Review: The Palestinian Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein - Business Standard

Book Review: The Yellow Sparrow by Santa Khurai - Indian Express

Interview: Hoshang Merchant – “Politics is a passing show, while humanity endures” - Hindustan Times

Book Review: The Other Olympians by Michael Waters - The Telegraph

Interview: Vaibhav Sharma - “Every translator should really like what they’re translating” - Hindustan Times

Interview: Saurabh Kirpal - ‘If I want equality, I will have to fight for it’ - The Hindu

Book Review: A Bouquet of Dead Flowers by Swadesh Deepak, translated by Jerry Pinto, Pratik Kanjilal, Nirupama Dutt & Sukant Deepak - TNIE

Book Review: A Portrait of Love by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, translated by Gautam Chaubey - Hindustan Times

Book Review: The Company of Violent Men by Siddharthya Roy- The Federal

Book Review: India’s Forgotten Country by Bela Bhatia - The Telegraph

Book Review: The Women Who Would Not Die by Uddipana Goswami - TNIE

Book Review: How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? by Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia - Business Standard

Interview: Aruna Roy – “The demonising of activists is unfortunate for the nation” - Hindustan Times

Book Review: The Jannayak Karpoori Thakur by Santosh Singh & Aditya Anmol - TNIE

Book Review: The Final Farewell by Minakshi Dewan - Doing Sociology

Interview: Sourav Roy - “There are deep problems despite the ‘Gitanjali Shree Effect’” Hindustan Times

Book Review: Suryavamshi by Abanindranath Tagore, translated by Sandipan Deb - TNIE

Article: Mark Gevisser recommends Queer literature from around the world - The Hindu

Interview: Kailash Satyarthi - “We need to globalise compassion” - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Manohar Kahani by Raghu Srinivasan - TNIE

Book Review: The Rumbling Earth by C.P. Rajendran & Kusala Rajendran - Business Standard

Report: Banaras Literature Festival 2024 - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Secularism: How India Reshaped the Idea by Nalini Rajan - Outlook

Book Review: Ma is Scared and Other Stories by Anjali Kajal, translated by Kavita Bhanot - The Federal

Interview: Daisy Rockwell - "I’m not worried about AI" - TNIE

Book Review: Roadwalker by Dilip D'Souza - The Telegraph

Article: With Her Fast Unto Death, a Manipuri Transwoman’s Quest for Peace - Quint

Book Review: The Idea of India by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Romila Thapar - The Federal

Book Review: Maya Nagari edited by Shanta Gokhale & Jerry Pinto - TNIE

Book Review: Muslim Politics in India by Hamid Dalwai, translated by Dilip Chitre - Frontline

Report: Kolkata People’s Film Festival - Hindustan Times

Book Review: Being Muslim in Hindu India by Ziya Us Salam - Business Standard

Interview: Ranjana Kaul – “We still have to work a lot on issues of caste and patriarchy” - Hindustan Times

Book Review: H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit - The Telegraph

Interview: Santa Khurai, author, The Yellow Sparrow - “Telling these stories is a way to save the lives of many like me” - Hindustan Times

Book Review: City on Fire by Zeyad Masroor Khan - Deccan Herald

Book Review: Bandi Jeevan by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, translated by Maneesha Taneja - Hindustan Times

Book Review: The Speaking Window by Sandeep Dutt, Faisal Hayat & Ritika - The Federal

This reader compiled a list of 117 Indian books in English translation published in 2023 - Scroll

Won the Rainbow Literature Award 2023 in the Op-Ed category

Book Review: Life Was Here Somewhere by Ajeet Cour, translated from Punjabi - The New Indian Express

Book Review: The Assamese by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty - The Federal

Book Review: The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told selected & edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri - Open The Magazine

Book Review: ‘Why Didn’t You Come Sooner’ by Kailash Satyarthi– Kunzum

Book Review: Bantering with Bandits by Annie Zaidi - The New Indian Express

A Statement of Solidarity With Gaza From More Than 100 Literary Translators

Book Review: Over the Rainbow by Aditya Tiwari - Hindustan Times

Book review: India’s Experiment with Democracy by S.Y. Quraishi - The Federal

Book Review: Won’t You Stay, Radhika? by Usha Priyamvada, translated by Daisy Rockwell - The Hindu

Book Review: On the Edge edited and translated by Ruth Vanita - Hindustan Times

Same-sex marriage: Give us equality, not ‘empathy’ - National Herald

Feature: Aditya Tiwari’s Queer India Chronicles - Outlook

Op-Ed: We will get past the marriage equality hiccup and fight on - Indian Express

Book Review: Didi by Nirupama Devi, translated by Alo Shome - The New Indian Express

Book Review: Dudiya by Vishwas Patil, translated by Nadeem Khan - Scroll

Book Review: Yaari, An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx - Gaylaxy Magazine

Book Review: Unsealed Covers: How Indian courts have betrayed its people - The Federal

Book Review: Peacemakers - Outlook

Report: Unmesha Festival 2023 - HT

Translation: HAPPY TOGETHER - Law & Policy Concerns of LGBTQI Persons & Relationships in India

Book Review: A Rebellious Cobbler - Deccan Herald

Movie Review: Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics — The Chakkar

Interview: Harsh Mander - aims to question the collective memory of the populace and demand accountability from the state. - The Hindu

Interview: Vishes Kothari - “Translation does become an act of activism” - HT

Book Review: Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People - Business Standard

Book Review: "Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India" - Gaylaxy Magazine

Interview: Not much has changed for queer people in smaller cities and villages after the Navtej judgment: Aditya Tiwari - The Hindu

Book Review: Courting Hindustan by Madhur Gupta - The Federal

An Evening Remembering Baba Saheb - Gaysi

Book review: Taranath Tantrik by Bibhutibhushan translated by Devalina Mookerjee - Scroll

Op-Ed: Cuba’s Family Code is a Guiding Light for Queer Activism - Midnight Sun

Report: International Kolkata Book Fair 2023: HT

Queering Language: Locating queerness in Hindi literature through the ages

A reader compiled this thread of 91 books from India translated into English and published in 2022

Essay: Queering translation: Locating queerness in Indian languages

Literary Hoomans and their Best Friends — The Chakkar

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