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In Bengaluru, reading groups (some of them underground) are using books to live outside the machine
Strangers are joining hands for causes after being brought together by an interest in books.
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‘It’s not just Church Street’: In Bengaluru, these three Kannada bookshops have their own identities
Because Kannada writers are stars in their own right, with a wide readership.
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What three second-hand bookshops on the same street say about Bengaluru’s reading culture
Blossoms, Bookworm, Select. All within a stone’s throw of one another. How does the city nurture them?
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Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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Will bring back electoral bonds after wider consultations, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today
Think of the liberal elite getting snarled while events take their own course.
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It’s easy to see why the Right wanted this book about Indians’ beef-eating history to be banned
DN Jha’s ‘The Myth of the Holy Cow’ examined facts, and its detractors didn’t like that.
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Why this book on India’s annexation of Sikkim needs to be read today
Sunanda K Dutta Ray’s ‘Smash And Grab’ wasn’t banned, but faced enough litigation to keep it out of readers’ reach for nearly 30 years.
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Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Time to lift the ban on what Nehru’s aide wrote about him and his contemporaries?
MO Mathai’s autobiography was merciless in both disparagement and detail. The third in our series on books banned in India.
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Why ‘Angaaray’ was banned (and what it could teach an Indian author about writing of women and sex)
The second in our series on books that were banned in India. This anthology was published in 1932 and banned in 1933.
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Aubrey Menen’s ‘Rama Retold’ tells us to laugh at the Ramayana. No wonder it’s still banned
The first in a series on books that were – and remain – banned in India.
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The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future