Fiction Pick
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‘Fear of Flying’: Erica Jong’s 1973 book has joyful abandon rarely found in today’s sad girl novels
Jong was writing as second-wave feminism was in the ascendancy and her novel often reads like a feminist manifesto.
Kath Kenny, The Conversation
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‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal
A story featuring ‘a Dilli-wallah to the core, claiming an ancestry of four hundred years in the city’.
Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times
Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.
VJ James
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Can BJP use Ram as a campaign tool during the election?
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Fiction pick: ‘The Ladder of Yarn’, a short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James
Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.
VJ James
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After ‘Daura’: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s Rajasthan novel about water
What happened after the district collector in the novel disappeared?
Anukrti Upadhyay
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‘I want to be Tagore’: The story for which every Punjabi student knows Mohan Bhandari (1937-2021)
The Punjabi writer died on November 26, 2021 at the age of 84.
Mohan Bhandari
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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‘The cost of hunger’: Abdus Samad’s poignant short story about life as a displaced Muslim in Assam
‘Beard. I want to shave off my beard.’
Abdus Samad
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Gulzar on the tragedy of Afghanistan: Four poems and a short story
Translated from the original Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil.
Gulzar
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‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya
It’s the game of life where the losers pay more.
Anuradha Sharma Pujaree
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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‘The Virus’: Is this short story actually a work of fiction in pandemic-struck India?
‘Do you know who this man is? Have you any idea how dangerous he is?’
Sirsho Bandopadhyay
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‘The Roshogolla Makers’: A sweet short story for the age of the pandemic
What happened after Bhanjo Mishtanno Bhandar in Kolkata had to close because of the lockdown.
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)
‘It had all started rather casually with some questions and jokes, leading to more enquiries and friends asking other friends, followed by WhatsApp forwards.’
Arundhati Ghosh
The Field
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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
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go