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Somak Ghoshal

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY SOMAK GHOSHAL

Protests in Frankfurt against the excessive surveillance by US intelligence, in 2013. (iStockphoto)

Book review: How the CIA smuggled banned literature behind the Iron Curtain

5 min read . 17 Apr 2025

Kazuo Ishiguro receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. Courtesy Getty Images

A morality tale for the age of AI

5 min read . 06 Apr 2025

The novel captures the shifts in Indian society’s attitudes to homosexuality. (iStockphoto)

‘Deviants’ book review: How generations of men navigated being queer in India

4 min read . 06 Apr 2025

The protagonist lives in Paharganj, the seedy underbelly of central Delhi, (istockphoto)

‘Night in Delhi’ book review: Sex, sleaze and some Shakespeare

3 min read . 05 Apr 2025

A still from the play by Debarshi Sarkar. (Photo courtesy Facebook/Swapnasandhani92)

‘Hamlet’ returns to the Kolkata stage

5 min read . 29 Mar 2025

Protagonist Sophia’s life is largely bankrolled by her father. (iStockphoto)

Alina Gufran's debut novel is a portrait of a writer as a self-sabotaging wreck

4 min read . 23 Mar 2025

'Alphabet Stories II'. Photographs: courtesy Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

‘Of Worlds Within Worlds’: Showing Gulammohammed Sheikh's lifetime of brilliance

6 min read . 07 Mar 2025

Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, at the Capital riots in 2021 (Getty Images)

Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelganger’ is a mirror to our world’s absurdity

5 min read . 02 Mar 2025

Gauri Gill spent all of 2021 documenting this showdown by the Punjab farmers on the highways leading into Delhi. Images: courtesy Vadehra Art Gallery

Photographer Gauri Gill brings the highway into the gallery

3 min read . 01 Mar 2025

Kashmiri boys walking past army vehicles after an encounter in Zaloora Sopore in January. (Getty Images)

Book review: Zahid Rafiq's debut captures Kashmir's invisible trauma

5 min read . 28 Feb 2025

Sudhir Patwardhan, 'Irani Cafe and the War Elsewhere', 2024, Images: courtesy Vadehra Art Gallery

‘Cities: Built, Broken’: A magnificent solo of Sudhir Patwardhan's recent work

6 min read . 24 Feb 2025

Displaced Palestinians make their way to the northern parts of the Gaza strip on 9 February. (Getty Images)

Pankaj Mishra on Gaza, and the ‘emotional bonding’ between India and Israel

6 min read . 16 Feb 2025

A letter can become a window into a personality with all its peculiarities. (Illustration by Nithya Subramanian)

The unbeatable warmth of love letters

8 min read . 14 Feb 2025

The Netflix show conveys the wonder but not the pace of the book.

Netflix can’t steal Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s thunder

6 min read . 09 Feb 2025

'How does a river breathe' (Switzerland, 2024) supported by Pro Helvetia (Photograph courtesy Anuja Dasgupta)

Anuja Dasgupta: Merging art and nature through ‘cameraless photography’

6 min read . 07 Feb 2025

Artist in residence Thamshangpha Maku’s booth at the 2024 India Art Fair.

How to start building an art collection

4 min read . 02 Feb 2025

Afra Eisma's work at 'Very Small Feelings', KNMA, 2023. (Courtesy: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art)

Why curators are the caregivers of the art world

6 min read . 31 Jan 2025

The Diary of Manu Gandhi, Edited and translated by Tridip Suhrud, Oxford University Press, 630 pages, ₹1,595

Manu Gandhi's diaries shine a light on Gandhi's deepest struggles

8 min read . 25 Jan 2025

‘Muses Over Mumbai’ captures the pulse of the metropolis. Image courtesy istockphoto

Murzban Shroff’s ‘Muses Over Mumbai’ review: An ode to hopes and heartbreak

4 min read . 23 Jan 2025

'Malayali Memorial': By Unni R., translated by J. Devika, Penguin Random House, 232 pages, ₹599.

Unni R.'s ‘Malayali Memorial’ review: Notes on the fragile male ego

5 min read . 19 Jan 2025