Nilanjana S Roy

All stories by Nilanjana S Roy

A Life Built on Reading
Rediff.com11 Feb 2017

'As you trek back down the centuries, returning to myth and legend, to stories told by...

The must-read books of 2016
Rediff.com17 Dec 2016

Nilanjana S Roy shares her picks.

Juggernaut's funky experiment
Rediff.com18 May 2016

Juggernaut's mobile reading app could be a game-changer, says Nilanjana S Roy.

The end of an era
Rediff.com18 Mar 2016

Balraj Bahri Malhotra and Ram Advani's passing signals the sunset of the era of the...

The best books to read in 2016
Rediff.com1 Jan 2016

From Aurangzeb to Sangh Parivar, the year 2016 offers plenty of hope in historical and...

India and its writers' rebellion
Rediff.com13 Oct 2015

Novelists are speaking for millions across India who are alarmed at where this country...

Our deadliest battles are now fought over literature, art and culture
Rediff.com1 Sep 2015

The only thing more dangerous than a killer who thinks he is acting to protect his...

Why the regional journalist is at threat
Rediff.com24 Jun 2015

The murders of journalists in 2015 underscore the rising power of regional language...

Why bloggers pay with their lives for speaking up
Rediff.com3 Mar 2015

Crackdowns on bloggers often signal the ominous rise of religious fundamentalism

A woman alone in the forest
Rediff.com8 Jan 2013

Five stories of rape and sexual assault from the epics are particularly useful in...

The unread Tagore
Rediff.com11 May 2010

As Tagore's 150th birth anniversary became a trending topic on Twitter, the social...

Creating a Classical Indian Canon
Rediff.com20 Apr 2010

In the library sales from the crumbling houses of Calcutta, or Delhi, or the...

The desi roman clef
Rediff.com7 Apr 2010

Good fiction and good gossip have a lot in common-so does bad fiction. James Wood once...

Should Google own the world's words?
Rediff.com15 Sep 2009

That's the key question in the ferocious debate raging over Google Book Search.

All about the Google Lively experience
Rediff.com9 Aug 2008

As it progresses, Lively is sure to acquire layers of complexity - and at that stage,...

Podcasts finally come of age
Rediff.com25 Mar 2006

Stodgy, plodding but satisfyingly horrific
Rediff.com6 Mar 2006

Who let the blogs out?
Rediff.com25 Feb 2006

2005: The year in fiction
Rediff.com22 Dec 2005

Non-fiction: The best of 2005
Rediff.com21 Dec 2005