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Soni Wadhwa
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Being Indian and beautiful in the US: This book examines what beauty means to the diaspora
How to look beautiful and fashionable in order to belong.
Soni Wadhwa
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Part history, part detective story, a book traces the mystery of a missing East India Company clerk
In ‘The Tiger and the Ruby’, Kief Hillsbery traces the steps of his missing ancestor across the Indian subcontinent, offering the ‘other side’ of British India.
Soni Wadhwa
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‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’ needs no coherent plot – it is a memory of conflicted times
Given a new life almost two-thirds of a century later, Krishna Sobti’s autobiographical novel is a troubled recounting of Partition days.
Soni Wadhwa
Trending
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘One of the greatest statesmen’: When Canada celebrated an Indian prime minister’s visit
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This book offers only a selective memory of the Partition through famous people
Mallika Ahluwalia compiles 21 accounts of the Partition but ignores ordinary people.
Soni Wadhwa
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In ‘The Origins of Dislike’, writer Amit Chaudhuri dismantles many myths of reading and writing
These essays on different aspects of publishing draws attention to the dominance of the market.
Soni Wadhwa
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Sufi poetry is luminous in Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif’s works, now translated into English
Christopher Shackle’s translations bring a monumental body of work out of Sindhi, where readers are dwindling, for the world to read.
Soni Wadhwa
Video
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Motherly figure, Hindu mystic or Jain pilgrim: Jesus has always been interpreted differently in Asia
In the book ‘Jesus in Asia’, RS Sugirtharajah explains how Jesus has been moulded to fit local cultures across Asia in a rejection of colonisation.
Soni Wadhwa
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Not just another city book: An American journalist tells Mumbai stories through three couples
American journalist Elizabeth Flock explores what the institution of marriage means in a city as layered and complex as Mumbai.
Soni Wadhwa
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Being Indian and beautiful in the US: This book examines what beauty means to the diaspora
How to look beautiful and fashionable in order to belong.
Soni Wadhwa
The Reel
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee’s hundredth movie ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ is a revenge drama
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition
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‘Presumed Innocent’ trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal plays a lawyer accused of murdering his lover
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‘Lampan’ trailer: Marathi series is based on Prakash Narayan Sant’s stories