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Mallik Thatipalli
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‘The Living Air’: A birder’s long tryst with birds show how they help overcome human fallibilities
‘The Living Air’ is as much about birding in general as it is about birding in Hyderabad. The author evokes the city in silent and subtle ways.
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘We want to help people to discover new books’: Hyderabad gets a new independent bookshop
‘I did not want to live in a city where they were no bookstores. . .and that led to me starting Luna.’
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad
An interview with Nazia Akhtar, the author of ‘Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose.’
Mallik Thatipalli
Trending
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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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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This children’s library in Hyderabad almost closed down during the pandemic. What revived it?
How The Book Shelf founder Haripriya Bathula fought to keep her library alive through the pandemic.
Mallik Thatipalli
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Low costs, moderate hopes: How Hyderabad’s last independent bookstore is trying to survive Covid-19
Owner Lakshmi Myneni says the bookshop has survived other shocks and will ride out this one.
Mallik Thatipalli
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The Art of Solitude: A traditional Telugu version of Ludo is helping bring a semblance of normalcy
Conversation and laughter over games of ashta chamma will be the memories of this anxious time after it has passed.
Mallik Thatipalli
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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PUBG and Warcraft can’t teach the life lessons that these traditional Indian board games did
A store in Hyderabad is trying to re-popularise South Indian games such as puli-joodam, basavanna-ata, daadi and others.
Mallik Thatipalli
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The story of textiles in independent India is closely linked to the life of one Hyderabadi woman
A new book documents the achievements of Suraiya Hasan Bose, who is single-handedly responsible for the revival of many forgotten weaves.
Mallik Thatipalli
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Why a tiny Hyderabad store with tattered old books has been attracting scholars for decades
Ahmed Bafanna founded Haziq and Mohi to make sure that the books bequeathed to him go to the right people. Now his relatives are continuing his legacy.
Mallik Thatipalli
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
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In Hyderabad, a Loo Café is challenging the poor perception of Indian public toilets
The city’s first luxury public washroom comes with free-to-use toilets, an ATM, an attached cafe, and a premium on cleanliness.
Mallik Thatipalli
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Trash talk: An illustrator wants Indians to live waste-free and heal the world
Shubhashree Sangameshwaran’s debut book illustrates the benefits of adopting the zero-waste lifestyle.
Mallik Thatipalli