under Sumana Roy

Reading the Reader

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader

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17 May 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
Planchette: A Dying Curiosity

An investigation of the disappearance of visiting ghosts

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21 Apr 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
From Tagore to Thakur

Durga puja pandals have clay figurines of Tagore. As do Saraswati puja ceremonies. Parents buy their kids Tagore dolls. In a state where the Left dismissed him as too elitist, Sumana Roy observes the canonisation of the poet-educationist

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16 Mar 2012 | BY Sumana Roy
Pixel Pretty

How Facebook launched a beauty

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2 Oct 2011 | BY Sumana Roy
The Flying Coffins of the Northeast

With Pawan Hans resuming helicopter services in the Northeast, it’s time to ask how its frequent crashes evoke no outrage or remedy

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26 Aug 2011 | BY Sumana Roy
Joke Studio India

The UN project-like earnestness with which popular singers like Sunidhi Chauhan are made to collaborate with not-so-famous talent from across the country makes for spectacularly unmoving performances

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28 Jul 2011 | BY Sumana Roy
Heat and Dust (and the AC) in South Asian Novels

Authors with sweat-lined brows have invariably used air-conditioning as a literary device to get under their characters’ skin.

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18 Aug 2010 | BY Sumana Roy
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