The fictional Hrishipur in Oindrila Mukherjee’s novel feels real, complex, and exacting. Like all modern cities, and unhappy in its own, unsettling ways.
Divya Ravindranath and Apoorva Saini have set up the online archive Cities in Fiction to record how fictional narratives construct spaces in South Asia.
Discussions to drop a paper on Ambedkar and references to caste and feminism are the latest steps in an effort to turn public educational institutes into training centre for Hindutva.