Soumya Bhattacharya is the editor of Hindustan Times, Mumbai. He is the author of five books of fiction, non-fiction and memoir.
Articles by Soumya Bhattacharya
Dad's the word
I suppose people want to have children for all sorts of reasons. I knew why I wanted to. (This is a big thing for me; I seldom have a clear idea of anything.) Soumya Bhattacharya writes.
Updated on Oct 27, 2008 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Review: Indignation
Philip Roth's book Indignation offers us as much the helplessness of the old as the wholesomeness and wholesome folly of youth.
Updated on Oct 22, 2008 05:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker prize
Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga today won the Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, "The White Tiger". Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's shortlist of six, report Soumya Bhattacharya and Vijay Dutt. Congratulate Aravind Adiga | Surfers' Response |Total Recall
Updated on Oct 17, 2008 12:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya and Vijay Dutt, Mumbai/london
Dad's the word
I have realised my only weapon when dealing with bullies (or those with aspirations of being bullies) is a sort of irony. And it doesn’t always work. I am too passive-aggressive, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Oct 12, 2008 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya, New Delhi
What a drag
We’ll pay for the privilege of killing ourselves. So the more you tax tobacco and the more we remain resolute, the richer you get, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Oct 01, 2008 10:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Bookest of them all
Jhumpa Lahiri's minimalism is a foil to the grand baroque style that informs some of our English fiction, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Sep 10, 2008 10:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Good riddance to that Indian Writing in English© rubbish
If we were to try to do that for the instant when that confounding sub-literature called Indian Writing in English became mainstream, one should look no further than this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Jul 30, 2008 10:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
The start of an affair
That victory at Lord’s a quarter of a century ago began to irreversibly push cricket from the margins to the centre of our popular culture and national consciousness. Just a game? Oh, no, it isn’t, not any more, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Jun 24, 2008 09:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
His baby's got a secret
Author Hanif Kureishi weaves into the tapestry of this novel the September 11 attacks, the London bombings and the way in which, after those incidents, educated urban Muslims have been floundering to define and understand their place in an increasingly polarised world, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on May 13, 2008 06:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Stumped vision
The Sydney Test debacle can be avoided if technology plays a bigger part and if there are more third-umpire referrals, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Jan 08, 2008 02:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Being Indian
Earlier you had self-respect. Now you have google. A google search for New India throws up 143,000,000 results, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Dec 29, 2007 10:59 PM IST
The game’s gentleman
Anil Kumble becoming captain is a victory of certain old-fashioned values, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Nov 11, 2007 10:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Vision 20/20
Twenty20 has whittled away at cricket’s essence and snuffed out its soul, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.
Updated on Sep 17, 2007 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya
Silly point
Has the cult of the individual overtaken the needs of the Indian cricket team? Soumya Bhattacharya probes.
Updated on Apr 06, 2007 12:23 PM IST
None | Soumya Bhattacharya
Dream send-off for Team India
India sign off their last series before the all-important WC on a winning note, reports Soumya Bhattacharya. In pics
Updated on Feb 18, 2007 11:03 AM IST
None | Soumya Bhattacharya, Visakhapatnam
Happiness under microscope
With Saturday, Ian McEwan offers a novel rich in texture and with concerns central to our times.
Updated on Feb 22, 2005 01:17 PM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya, Kolkata
The Smoking Diaries
Playright Simon Gray's thoughts put together "as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed".
Updated on Jul 29, 2004 09:57 AM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya
Goodbye, Steve Waugh
Were it not for the small matter of deciding one of the tightest Test series in the contemporary game.
Updated on Jan 07, 2004 01:45 AM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya, Sydney
Swami Army finds voice in the SCG din
It might seem hard to be in good voice when you are getting the raised middle finger for anything more than a mutter.
Updated on Jan 06, 2004 11:36 AM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya, Sydney
?He?s the best?, they say Down Under
Akshay Kripalani studies computer science at the University of Sydney and came to the SCG today for the reason that a lot of people have been going to cricket grounds all over the world for the last 14 years: to watch Sachin Tendulkar bat.
Published on Jan 04, 2004 12:43 AM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya, Sydney
A marriage of contradictions
Somehow, it all hangs together. It shouldn't, by logic, but it does. Very nicely.
Updated on Jan 03, 2004 12:09 PM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya, Sydney
Bollywood impact
In the West, Bollywood has now become a proper proper noun.
Updated on Jan 27, 2003 11:00 PM IST
PTI | Soumya Bhattacharya
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