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Aditya Mani Jha

Independent Journalist

Aditya Mani Jha is an independent writer and journalist living in New Delhi. He is currently working on his first nonfiction book, a collection of essays about Indian comics and graphic novels, to be published by Oxford University Press.

ARTICLES BY ADITYA MANI JHA

Matriarch, Cows and Epic Villains: By Suniti Namjoshi, Zubaan-Penguin; 376 pages, ₹499.

How Suniti Namjoshi wields the spear and the shield of satire and fables

4 min read . 01 Jun 2025

From broadcasts to coaching to the playing field, data is taking over cricket. Photo courtesy Getty

Big data has changed cricket

13 min read . 30 May 2025

Ram Prasad Bismil, Bhagat Singh, and Subhas Chandra Bose (Wikimedia Commons)

The unknown lives of young Indian revolutionaries

6 min read . 04 May 2025

Upamanyu Chatterjee in Paris in 2002. (Getty Images)

Books: Upamanyu Chatterjee is master of the absurd in his new collection

5 min read . 03 May 2025

'The Florida Project'

Sean Baker’s subversion of the American dream

5 min read . 05 Mar 2025

Zaidi’s novel is centred around the world of stage theatre. (iStockphoto)

‘The Comeback’ by Annie Zaidi: Art and friendship, tainted by some ugly business

4 min read . 02 Mar 2025

A still from David Cronenberg’s 'Naked Lunch'

‘Queer’ and beyond: The screen life of William S. Burroughs

5 min read . 20 Feb 2025

Krishna Sobti was born 100 years ago this week on 18 February 1925 in Gujrat, Punjab Province (Pakistan). (Courtesy Daisy Rockwell/Instagram)

Remembering the pioneering legacy of Krishna Sobti at 100

6 min read . 15 Feb 2025

Aardman’s ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’

Wallace & Gromit and the charm of claymation

4 min read . 22 Jan 2025

Nambisan’s latest book follows the life and times of a Brahmin patriarch. Inage via Istockphoto

How the wheels of oppression keep turning

4 min read . 21 Jan 2025

Poetry lessons from Charles Darwin

6 min read . 26 Dec 2024

Cynthia Erivo and (right) Ariana Grande in 'Wicked'. Picture via AP

‘Wicked’ and other travellers on the yellow brick road

5 min read . 01 Dec 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates is primarily trying to reach apathetic, propaganda-guzzling US readers. (Getty Images)

Book review: Educating Americans about the reality of Israel

1 min read . 17 Nov 2024

Vijay plays father and son in 'G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time)'

Why do so many Indian actors take on father-son double roles?

6 min read . 12 Oct 2024

Keki N. Daruwalla, who died on 26 September, is considered one of the greatest English-language poets of India (HT PRINT)

Keki Daruwalla (1937-2024): The police officer turned poet

4 min read . 02 Oct 2024

Our City That Year: Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy
Rockwell, Penguin Random House India, 432 pages, ₹699

Geetanjali Shree on ‘Our City That Year’ and the politics of violence

6 min read . 22 Sep 2024

Colm Tóibín grew up in Enniscorthy, Ireland. Courtesy Getty

‘Long Island’: A story about emotive logic and all that it entails

4 min read . 08 Sep 2024

A woman attends Eid al-Adha prayers at historical Badshahi mosque in Lahore. Photo via AP

‘Blasphear’: Playing sacred games in Pakistan

3 min read . 01 Jul 2024

A still from 'Interview With The Vampire'

Artistic bloodletting in ‘Interview with the Vampire’

4 min read . 30 Jun 2024

Jeff Goldblum in 'The Fly'

Gigi Ganguly’s notes from a peculiar planet

3 min read . 17 Jun 2024