Popular Writing

Living on the Edge, The Indian Express, Nov 5, 2023. (Visit https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/mini-chandran/ for all the Indian Express articles)

In their Tongues, The Indian Express, December 4, 2022.

Ulysses at 100, The Indian Express, June 16, 2022.

Whose Line is it Anyways? The Indian Express: February 5, 2021.

Publish and Perish, The Indian Express: June 29, 2019.

Can you Hear Me? The Indian Express: February 19, 2018.

On Literary Censorship in India, Interview in the online magazine Of Books and Bookworms, https://ofbnb.co.in/2018/12/11/dr-mini-chandran-on-literary-censorship-in-india/: 2018.

Political Correctness has Morphed into an Undemocratic Censor, The Print: October 1, 2017. https://theprint.in/opinion/political-correctness-censorship/11059/

Literary Dissent in the Democratic Space, in Live Encounters (online magazine), https://liveencounters.net/2017-le-mag/08-august-2017/professor-mini-chandran-literary-dissent-in-the-democratic-space/

The Shortest Way with Dissenters, Gateway Litfest, https://gatewaylitfest.com/the-shortest-way-with-dissenters/ Oct 8, 2017.

A Different Neighbourliness, The Indian Express: August 29, 2016.

Give the Devil his Due, The Financial Chronicle, May 6, 2016

“Lift me as a Wave, a Leaf, a Cloud”, The Financial Chronicle, March 3, 2016.

The Native Sahib, The Indian Express: January 16, 2016.

Silence, Exile and Cunning, The Indian Express: October 13, 2015.

Vivartanam, Kalakaumudi weekly: September 2015.

A More Docile Writing, The Indian Express: June 27, 2012.

Padanayikayude Karmayogam (The Karmayoga of the Leader), tribute to Lakshmi Sahgal, Kalakaumudi weekly: August 5, 2012 

Rushdie’s Victory, Kalakaumudi weekly: Feb 20, 2009

The Daredevils of Print, The Hindu Literary Review: March 15, 1998.

The Saga of Zhivago, Indian Express Sunday edition: November 15, 1992.

The Gospel of Saramago, Mathrubhumi weekly: November 8, 1998.

Unseen chains behind women's writing, Mathrubhumi special issue: 1997.

Feminism: From the Hunted to the Hunter, cover story of Mathrubhumi weekly: November 28,1993.

Music and Censorship, cover story of Mathrubhumi weekly: November 22, 1992.

The Best Job in the World, (English to Malayalam), article by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published in Mathrubhumiweekly: July 27,1997.

The Final Salute, (English to Malayalam), story by Saadat Hassan Manto, published in Mathrubhumi weekend edition: 1994.

Distant Visions, (Malayalam to English), story by Kakkanadan, in Dakshina, published by the Sahitya Akademi, 1991.