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Ulka Anjaria
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Fifty years later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn as modern Indian literature
The world is upside-down, provincialism has replaced cosmopolitanism, and exoticism is dead in today’s fiction. Just like in ‘Raag Darbari’.
Ulka Anjaria
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Will Arundhati Roy's new novel change the course of Indian writing in English again?
'The God of Small Things' sparked a whole new literature. What will 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' bring?
Ulka Anjaria
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‘Lady Lolita’s Lover’ shows us there can be no Great Indian Novel right now
Perhaps the new, emerging reality cannot be artistically represented in the traditional form of big fiction.
Ulka Anjaria
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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In Sambhal, Muslims allege UP police stormed booths, snatched IDs and beat up voters on polling day
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Athletics, Doha Diamond League as it happened: Neeraj Chopra finishes second; Kishore Jena ninth
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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The numbers show the idea of Muslim population explosion is nothing but political propaganda
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Indian fiction: Why the English vs Bhasha debate no longer makes sense
A new idiom for contemporary English fiction makes a “bhasha” out of English.
Ulka Anjaria
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Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga: two ways to write English in India
One represents the past and one, the future, of the use of the English language in Indian fiction.
Ulka Anjaria
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Reading Chetan Bhagat in Dhaka: the anxiety of English literature
Choosing what to read is playing a crucial role in the uneasy conflict between the mother-tongue and English.
Ulka Anjaria
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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’