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Durba Chattaraj
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Reading ‘The Dawn of Everything’ from India: What if the past was a more enlightened place?
In their new book, David Graeber and David Wengrow imaginatively challenge the conventionally accepted arc of the progress of civilisation.
Durba Chattaraj
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Author’s lament: Why Amazon closing down Westland feels like we’re living in a Mohsin Hamid novel
‘What, really, is a book worth in the world? This overnight shutdown feels more personal still.’
Durba Chattaraj
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‘The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy’ is essential reading for our times. Especially for the young
Clues, partial answers and starting directions to solving some of the great puzzles and questions playing out in India today.
Durba Chattaraj
Trending
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Ordinary voters flagged Modi speech to Election Commission – and came up against a broken system
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Memoir: Human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar recalls her understanding of feminism as a young woman
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Harsh Mander: Past, present and future – what Narendra Modi’s campaign of hate signifies
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Mid-life running works wonders for the knees, hips and spine
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Raheel, Dhami named in India’s 24-member men’s squad for Europe leg
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A blueprint for creating new readers in the post-pandemic world (or, what publishers need to do)
To create a new generation of readers in India, we will need a new generation of books.
Durba Chattaraj
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This book retrieves the horrific memories of a massacre in Bengal from the dustbin of history
In 1979, the Left Front government’s attack on refugees in Marichjhapi led to hundreds of deaths. ‘Blood Island’ is the oral history of survivors.
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A book featuring lynching photographs from America brings home a reality we cannot ignore
Allowing us to view lynching from a distance, ‘Without Sanctuary’ makes us realise our own complicity.
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Video
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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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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A French novel, written by a Mauritian writer, brings home our experience in India like few books do
‘Eve Out Of Her Ruins’ is written by Ananda Devi, a writer of Indian origin from Mauritius.
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Arundhati Roy’s novel lays bare the horrors and hopes of our times. This is not holiday homework
Whatever your political leaning, left, right or neither, you can’t stop reading this book.
Durba Chattaraj
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‘To me fiction can never be a manifesto with animated characters doing your bidding:’ Arundhati Roy
‘Dancing on the streets that we have marched on...even while the lynch mobs are out, and the vigilantes...spit and jeer – that’s utmost happiness.’
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The Reel
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Watch: Politics, ambition and crime in Vasantha Balan’s ‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’
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How the fantasy film ‘Pathala Bhairavi’ heavily influenced Telugu cinema
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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