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Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘I want to connect culture, people, food in one sentence’: Restauranteur and food writer Asma Khan
‘To eat is a privilege, but just because you’re poor, a refugee, or in a war zone doesn’t mean that you are someone without the right to feel satisfied.’
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘I was testing the boundaries of motherhood and its impact on creative life’: Writer Bee Rowlatt
An interview with the author of ‘Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad’ and ‘In Search of May’.
Vighnesh Hampapura & Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘We’re both very superstitious’: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell get candid about ‘Tomb Of Sand’
A free-wheeling chat with International Booker Prize winners Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell’s about superstitions, Hindustani music, sparrows, and more.
Vighnesh Hampapura
Trending
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‘Panchayat’ Season 3 review: We’re back in Phulera but we’re not sure why
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Nobody knew of Mahatma Gandhi before film about him was made, claims PM Narendra Modi
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In Bangladesh, climate disasters are forcing girls into underage marriages
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Opinion: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the democratic politics of pronunciation
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‘All We Imagine As Light’ review: A poetic exploration of love and dreams
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International Booker Prize 2022: Notes from the readings before the prize announcement
Several of the shortlisted authors and translators read from their books at the Southbank Centre in London. Whose names will be announced as winners today?
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel may be the most original and undefinable work of our times
In Daisy Rockwell’s virtuoso translation, this Hindi novel has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Avasthe’: UR Ananthamurthy’s novel interrogates politics for its relationship with love and life
Unfortunately, this English version is more of a novel-sized rendition of the novel than a living, breathing translation.
Vighnesh Hampapura
Video
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Watch: How the crew and passengers were evacuated from a plane after bomb scare in Delhi
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Video: How should India tackle its unemployment crisis?
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Watch: ‘The Garfield Movie’ screened specially for cats and their owners in Dubai cinema hall
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Cyclone Remal: Scenes of damage as heavy rain and storms batter parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal
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Watch: When the ‘All We Imagine As Light’ team danced on the red carpet before the Cannes screening
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’: Why we can’t stop reading a novel featuring an unlikeable adolescent
Elena Ferrante’s latest is true to the limitations of its narrator – and the lies of living.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent
In the original, this Tamil novel foreshadows its famous successors like ‘One Part Woman’, but the English version flattens its registers.
Yashasvi Arunkumar & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘You feel left behind. You can divert that anger to demand justice, or towards radicalisation’
An interview with Åsne Seierstad, the author of ‘The Bookseller of Kabul’ and ‘One Of Us’.
Vighnesh Hampapura
The Reel
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‘36 Days’ trailer: Neha Sharma leads series about a mysterious tenant, secrets and murder
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Memoir: Hollywood producer Priyanka Mattoo traces her journey from Kashmir to Los Angeles
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‘Panchayat’ Season 3 review: We’re back in Phulera but we’re not sure why
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Io Capitano’, a gripping tale of flight and fight
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The miraculous resurrection of Nirad Mohapatra’s Odia classic ‘Maya Miriga’
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‘The best shows, like Breaking Bad, come from people who have plunged deeply into literature’
An interview with Stephen Greenblatt, whose latest book examines Shakespeare in the context of present-day political dictators.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘We actually think in poetry. Because we cannot speak in poetry, we speak inadequately’: Lemn Sissay
An interview with poet, essayist, playwright and scriptwriter Lemn Sissay.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Does upper caste society acknowledge the private reservations it has had for years?’: Yashica Dutt
An interview with the writer of ‘Coming Out As Dalit’.
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The Field
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Badminton, Singapore Open Super 750: Sindhu, Prannoy, Treesa-Gayatri advance to R16; Lakshya exits
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Boxing, World Olympic Qualifier: Arundhati Choudhary advances to pre quarters; Narender Berwal loses
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Athletics: Thiago Braz, pole vault champion at 2016 Olympic Games, banned for doping
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Tennis, French Open: Novak Djokovic, Aryna Sabalenka cruise into second round at Roland Garros
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Table Tennis: How Archana Kamath fought back a mental block to make the Indian team for Paris 2024