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Moving across cities and through her twenties, the protagonist of Alina Gufran’s novel is not fighting the doomed fight against a broken society in India and beyond. Instead, she’s confined by it, and she’s fighting mostly against herself.

Alina Gufran on millennial precarity and unbelonging in urban India: Southasia Review of Books podcast #28

14 Jul 2025

A screen displaying the homepage of ChatGPT, an AI language model.
In ‘Searches’, Vauhini Vara draws attention to and critiques a promise often made by AI companies – that they could help us tell our own stories. She does so by enacting a form of complicity in generating artificial language through the extraction of other people’s expressions of it, using a technology known to push insidious rhetoric, exploit human labour and deplete natural resources.

Vauhini Vara on big tech and our digital selves: Southasia Review of Books podcast #27

30 Jun 2025

Jerry Pinto at the third annual History for Peace conference, The Idea of India, held in Calcutta in 2017. Pinto’s newly released History for Peace Tracts volume brings together a collection of talks he has delivered across India, broadly exploring how history is shaped by people – and how people, in turn, are shaped by history.

Jerry Pinto on inclusive storytelling: Southasia Review of Books podcast #26

16 Jun 2025

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