Bottom Shelf
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The spirits in Manoj Das’s near-forgotten stories makes you wonder who the real ghosts are
The stories in ‘Farewell to a Ghost’ comprise a lament for the past.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
Continuing our series on near-forgotten books from the past that are worth reading in the 21st Century.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories provide a taste of what made his novels so powerful in their times
These works grapple with social issues, injustice and oppression, pitting rich against poor, upper castes against lower, men against women.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Trending
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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‘Will I risk paralysis to get bail?’: Arvind Kejriwal denies eating sugary foods in prison
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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago
Rereading Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut novel from 2000, ‘What The Body Remembers’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness
Continuing our series on all-but-forgotten books with a journey through Verma’s ‘The World Elsewhere and Other Stories’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi
In his 1940 novel ‘Twilight in Delhi’, Ahmed Ali situates both desire and sadness in a city that lives now in the memories of its characters.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition
In his 1994 novel ‘Looking Through Glass’, the historian and writer uses magical realism in fiction to depict a saga we’re all familiar with.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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In Abraham Verghese’s deeply moving tale about friendship, tennis is both a comfort and a metaphor
‘The Tennis Partner’, published in 1998, is the perfect read before (and after) the Wimbledon final.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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It’s too soon to forget this warm, charming novel about an underdog in big, lonely Mumbai
We dusted our copy of ‘Arzee the Dwarf’ to revisit a three-foot something protagonist who’s waiting for ‘the age of Arzee’. Alas, trouble lies ahead.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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If you love Indian graphic novels, don’t forget the one that came at the beginning
Weird people with weirder obsessions made for the weirdest cocktail of stories.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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The first autobiographical novel by an Indian woman writing in English was both beautiful and profound
Krupabai Satthianadhan’s ‘Saguna’, which appeared in 1887, was largely autobiographical.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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What English mathematicians thought of the ‘Hindoo calculator’
Revisiting ‘The Indian Clerk’, David Leavitt’s bionovel of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Field
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Watch, highlights ISL 2024: Odisha FC through to semi-final after beating Kerala Blasters in playoff
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time