Red Rosa-Kate Evans

If it's a book review that you want, then I have nothing to add to Steven Bell, from the Guardian's comment (on the cover)- "utterly brilliant". Yes so it is. I first heard of this work on this Verso podcast with the author/artist Kate Evans. Last week the book randomly cropped up on my mind. …

“Halla Bol. The death and life of Safdar Hashmi” Sudhanva Deshpande

Before I read this book, I only had a passing knowledge of Safdar Hashmi- a street theatre artist, a north-Indian leftist, always spoken of in deep tones of respect by the people who knew of him, and some one who was killed during one of his street performances. I use the word killed because as …

Things that can and cannot be said (John Cusack & Arundhati Roy)

The book is only slightly bigger than my hand, and shorter than my thumb-nail. Inside the Penguin edition, the font must be what, size 8? Anyway as I was saying, the book is small, but like Arundhati Roy herself, packs a serious punch. My mother told me she saw Roy at the airport a long …