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Somak Ghoshal

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ARTICLES BY SOMAK GHOSHAL

Let's make a PACT (iStock)

Instead of setting SMART goals, why not make a PACT?

4 min read . 13 May 2025

Detail from Atanu Roy’s illustration from ‘The Puffin Book of Magical Indian Myths’ by Anita Nair. ©Penguin Books India, 2007

Can AI replace children's book illustrators?

6 min read . 12 May 2025

Tagore was a literary giant, who always remained ahead of his time, as well as his contemporaries in Bengal. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Looking back at the intertwined legacies of Tagore and Ray

5 min read . 04 May 2025

'Festival at Thirunallar' by Madras Artist, c.1800

In the company of Indian masters

2 min read . 27 Apr 2025

Aamir Aziz has reportedly asked for equal compensation for the works incorporating text from his poem, and the matter is being discussed by the parties’ legal representatives (YouTube) (HT_PRINT)

Aamir Aziz, Anita Dube and the hypocrisy of political art

3 min read . 22 Apr 2025

The novel, set in Lutyens’ Delhi, explores sibling dynamics. Photo: iSTOCKPHOTO

‘The Tiger’s Share': Taking the mask off the elite, entitled Indian male

4 min read . 20 Apr 2025

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