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Sonya Dutta Choudhury

Sonya Dutta Choudhury

Articles by Sonya Dutta Choudhury

Book Box: Sorrow and Bliss, The Go-Between and books for a hospital wait

What I Read (and Couldn’t Read) in the ICU and a forcefield of books for the weather of our minds

Updated on Aug 9, 2026 06:44 IST

Book Box : The addictive art of pairing books

Recently, I’ve taken to pairing my reading, and it feels like a compounding of pleasures. Much like combining a cappuccino with a croissant.

Updated on Aug 2, 2026 08:08 IST

Book Box: A masterclass in cockroaches

Words of protest

Updated on Jul 26, 2026 05:42 IST

Book Box: Anna Karenina to Na Hanyate: Who gets to tell a marriage story?

Anna Karenina, Na Hanyate, and Strangers

Updated on Jul 19, 2026 04:41 IST

Book Box: How not to tell a story

The best part of returning to Mumbai, apart from the monsoon rains, is being reunited with my bookshelves.

Updated on Jul 12, 2026 05:02 IST

Book Box: Building a bookshelf that tells your story

The problem in our house is that people keep buying books and no one wants to give their books away.

Updated on Jul 5, 2026 07:37 IST

Book Box: Halfway through 2026, the books worth reading and skipping

From standout audiobooks to overrated bestsellers, a mid-year review of the best books of 2026.

Updated on Jun 28, 2026 07:37 IST

Book Box: The Fathers We Forgive

There are three fathers in Whistler . (File Photo)

Updated on Jun 21, 2026 06:52 IST

Book Box: How to paint a tree

Painting Trees

Updated on Jun 14, 2026 07:38 IST

Book Box: How to read Taiwan Travelogue

Do you find some prize-winning novels hard to read?

Updated on May 31, 2026 04:09 IST

Book Box: The death of the author?

The Ghost in the Wires

Updated on May 24, 2026 04:21 IST

Book Box: Can you bottle a Goddess?

All around and above me are ancient deodar cedar trees, their sap-green, needle-covered branches rising a hundred feet into a clear blue sky. Below me, the cool grey stones of the temple courtyard.

Updated on May 17, 2026 09:55 IST

Book Box: Cracking the mother-daughter code

“Give me a good book, mama,” says the September baby.

Updated on May 10, 2026 02:29 IST

Book Box interviews Pallavi Aiyar on grief, travel, and writing

Writer and foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar opened up about grief and illness with the wit and honesty and the deeply personal journey behind her latest book Travels in the Other Place

Updated on May 3, 2026 09:40 IST

Book Box: Yesteryear and the house that wasn’t mine

The family house, painting by my daughter

Updated on Apr 26, 2026 03:32 IST

Book Box: Tell the story of your life in three objects

In Manali, the light streams in early, lighting up our bedroom at 5:30 am

Updated on Apr 19, 2026 05:00 IST

Book Box: How to grow your own poem

The Table from ‘How to Grow Your Own Poem’

Updated on Apr 12, 2026 07:09 IST

Book Box: Fairy tales were never about children, but about you

Reading Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

Updated on Apr 5, 2026 05:56 IST

Book Box | Reading war at 35,000 feet: Books that decode West Asia conflict

Readers worldwide turn to literature to decode the complexities of the West Asia conflict

Updated on Mar 29, 2026 16:07 IST

Book Box: A Reader in Chicago

Reading Wellness by Nathan Hill.

Updated on Mar 22, 2026 04:42 IST

Book Box: Meet Safeena Husain, among Time's 2026 Women of the Year

Safeena Husain

Updated on Mar 16, 2026 01:37 IST

Book Box: A reader in New York

Morgan Library, New York

Updated on Mar 9, 2026 12:17 IST

Book Box: My AI Fiction Reading List

AI Fiction Reading List

Updated on Mar 1, 2026 22:09 IST

Book Box| When books comfort the soul: A February reflection

I am in Mumbai, downstairs in the garden, journaling at the wooden table

Updated on Feb 22, 2026 14:25 IST

Book Box: Loving The Other Reader

A Valentine for incompatible readers.

Updated on Feb 15, 2026 11:00 IST

Book Box: The Correspondent from Frankfurt

I pull out my phone, plug in my earphones, and settle down to listen to the audiobook version of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Updated on Feb 9, 2026 24:35 IST

Book Box: The Short Stories That Saved My Week

Books that feature in this week's column.

Updated on Feb 2, 2026 24:40 IST

Book Box: A Republic on rails — Finding India in its trains

Representational image.

Updated on Jan 25, 2026 07:21 IST

Book Box: Jaipur Lit Fest, from fight-or-flight to the comfort of books

Jeet Thayil (left) in conversation with William Sieghart

Updated on Jan 18, 2026 11:05 IST

Book Box: Railsong and the art of reading slowly

RRailsong has many moments that resonate thus. The book affects us all in different ways

Updated on Jan 11, 2026 15:33 IST

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