I've gone on record a number of times expressing my displeasure with those who appropriate stories from other cultures. For far too many years there has existed a type of cultural colonialism which ...

Greg Stafford's A Pyre for Gods and Heroes will be the first release in a new RuneQuest Fiction line from Chaosium.

In India, the English-speaking elite seldom understand regional literature, which leads to certain misconjecture. It is similar to the West’s Oriental perspective of the East a few centuries ago and ...

In Perumal Murugan’s Pyre, the lyrical notes of Illaiyaraaja’s Aathu Mettula (in Gramathu Athiyayam), and Ceylon Radio echoing from a transistor are inseparable from the simmering love between ...

Apparently, in the land where your character, the Reader, dwells, your skill isn’t so easily welcomed. You find yourself exiled from a land known as the Commonwealth and pretty much left for dead.

CHENNAI: Writer Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel "Pyre" (original title, Pookuzhi) has been long-listed for International Booker Prize 2023. It is among 13 books from across Asia, Africa, Europe and ...

Coming from a family that boasts numerous elopements spanning generations, perhaps I am uniquely suited to talk about Perumal Murugan's Pyre. I have seen, first-hand, the shake-ups of loyalty, the ...

Perumal Murugan’s Pyre , translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is on the International Man Booker Prize long list for 2023. “Meditative, joyous, humbling” — three words Aniruddhan Vasudevan uses in his ...