VEENA VENUGOPAL journalist and author

VEENA VENUGOPAL has been a journalist for the past decade, and is based in Delhi. She is the author of Would You Like Some Bread With that Book? (Yoda Press), a collection of essays on books and the pleasure of reading, described as a “joyride” for the voracious reader by The Times of India. She writes for Quartz, Atlantic Media’s new online magazine and is working on her next book, which will be published by Penguin in 2014.

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Through the protagonist’s broken and filthy body, Jennings casts a light on a broken and filthy world.

Review of ‘Crooked Seeds’ by Karen Jennings, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025

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Priyanka Mattoo

I was raised by one family, but I think it represents so many of our families: Priyanka Mattoo, author of Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones

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Column | The zeitgeist of Modern Times

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Only the white-collared can liberate activism from the murkiness that has been attached to it.

Column: Kolkata doctor rape-murder | Step outside the bubble

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Social media influencers have moved out of our phone screens and into the centrestage of our lives.

Column | From Cannes to the Ambani wedding to Paris Olympics, the call sheet of influencers is expanding

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What is it about first love that makes it almost impossible to completely recover from?

Column | First love, second chance

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and W.E.B Du Bois

Column | Pronouncing privilege

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In May 2022, after spending more than six years in jail for allegedly murdering her daughter, Indrani Mukerjea secured bail.

Column | Indrani Mukerjea’s cult of fame

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The author with her family (centre)

The charm of the 80s school vacation

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Kate Middleton and Prince William spreading awareness on World Mental Health Day

Column | Perfect is boring

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People in a mall in London

Column | Real or realistic, what’s your pick?

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A family portrait from actor Aamir Khan’s daughter Ira Khan’s wedding in Mumbai, January 2024.

Column | How to be a family: version 2.0

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There are several Kims in the stories and they are everyday women, often overlooked, rarely noticed.

A dose of Korean reality | Review of ‘Miss Kim Knows’, short stories by Choo Nam-joo, translated by Jamie Chang

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John William Godward’s 1897 oil painting ‘Dolce Far Niente’.

Column | This year I will put my feet up and not be guilted into being productive all the time

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