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Saloni Sharma
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‘Red River’: To whom does a piece of land belong? Who gets to live on its resources?
Somnath Batabyal’s novel walks a tightrope between seeming normalcy and its violent collapse.
Saloni Sharma
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Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel situates itself in the stability and freedoms of faith
Based on the life of the author’s friend Fabrizio Senesi, ‘Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life’ is a break from Chatterjee’s dark humour and cynicism.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Beneath the Simolu Tree’: How the ordinary can inspire complex relationships with art and grief
As an advocate for people with spinal muscular atrophy, author Sarmistha Pritam also writes with sensitivity about the role of caregiving.
Saloni Sharma
Trending
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Unnatural sex between husband and wife not rape, woman’s consent immaterial: Madhya Pradesh HC
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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‘The Kidnapping of Mark Twain’: The turn of the century and a brave new Bombay
Largely delivering on its promise, the book is a story of crime, intrigue, and detection.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times’ engages with critical issues and offers no easy solutions
Rakhshanda Jalil’s valuable anthology answers the banal question about the ‘relevance’ of Urdu with aplomb and skill.
Saloni Sharma
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‘The History Teacher of Lahore’: Literature as witness and vehicle of change during difficult times
A crucial coming-of-age story from Pakistan of a protagonist caught in the flux of a changing national imagination.
Saloni Sharma
Video
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Video: What will it take to bring back peace to Manipur?
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Watch: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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‘The Dream Builders’: How modern cities kill the dreams they promise their less-fortunate residents
The fictional Hrishipur in Oindrila Mukherjee’s novel feels real, complex, and exacting. Like all modern cities, and unhappy in its own, unsettling ways.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Azadi’: How a syncretic India can crumble away under the pressure of communal, nationalistic pride
First published in 1975, Chaman Nahal’s ‘Azadi’ won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Bantering with Bandits’: Annie Zaidi’s searing truths about Indian preoccupations and peculiarities
This book of essays creates a space where the personal and the political fuse to paint an often uncomfortable picture of our sociopolitical reality.
Saloni Sharma
The Reel
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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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Watch: ‘Murder in Mahim’ series is based on Jerry Pinto’s crime novel
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‘Women Of My Billion’ review: What happens when women get talking
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‘The Broken News’ S2 review: A competent second round of TV channel rivalry
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‘Assassin’: Using demonetisation as a leitmotif, KR Meera’s novel examines the many flaws of India
Just like in the real world, unsettling questions have no easy answers in this novel, translated into English by J Devika.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Brotherless Night’: A powerful novel about waiting and resisting during Sri Lanka’s civil war
The title of VV Ganeshananthan’s novel refers to the long night when the protagonist’s eldest brother goes missing in the 1983 pogrom against Tamils.
Saloni Sharma
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‘My Poems Are Not For Your Ad Campaign’: Shining idealism versus hypocritical corporate culture
Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s Assamese novel also posits a solution to the existential crisis of the globalised world.
Saloni Sharma
The Field
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IPL 2024: Kolkata beat Mumbai in a thriller at Wankhede for the first time in 12 years
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Brijesh, Aryan and five other Indians enter finals
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Cricket, ICC rankings: India remain No 1 in ODIs and T20Is, ranked second in Tests
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Watch, ICC Men's T20 World Cup: Sean Paul and Kes combine to create tournament's official anthem
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Four Indians move to semi-finals with comprehensive wins