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Book review: The Laughter by Sonora Jha

That savage chortle Sonora Jha`s book has a definitive personality; it is someone standing in the shadows of an ancient arch looking out at a decidedly un-ancient campus square with a sardonic half-smile on their lips and savage murder in their heart. On the surface of it, The Laughter is about Oliver Harding, an old-school…

Feature: The Sonora Jha Interview

`Tenderness and empathy are the pillars of feminism for boys` Professor of journalism, writer, activist Sonora Jha `s latest book How to Raise a Feminist Son is a lived experience manifesto, a brave meld of the personal and the political. Every chapter parses the complexities of feminism, the weight of traditional tropes, gender binaries in films…

Book review: Foreign by Sonora Jha

In that limbo An NRI is forced to face issues concerning herself and her country, issues she had turned her back on. Foreign works on two levels. It is about Katya (Katyayini) Misra acknowledging how she feels now she’s back in India after years away. She looks wincingly at the dismal situation in a small…