Literature
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In a new book, novelist Tabish Khair argues that ‘literature’ is fundamental to human nature
Tabish Khair
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Upamanyu Chatterjee’s ‘Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life’ wins the JCB Prize for Literature
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Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest announces shortlists in five categories for its 2024 book awards
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For children: A teenaged prince Ram stumbles upon a secret plot to steal a divine weapon
RK Singh
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Folk tales for children: How the Myntdu, Myntang and Umiurem rivers in Meghalaya came to be
Sobhona Bhattacharjee Utsa Bose
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How did Surat become the setting for an 18th-century French story?
Krupa Shah
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‘Leaf, Water, and Flow’: An ingeniously structured novel that questions how we read and write
Adit Shankar
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces its nonfiction and fiction longlists for 2024
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Poet, novelist, and dramatist Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih wins the 2024 Shakti Bhatt Prize
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Persian prose meets pulp fiction: How an 18th-century fairy tale became a multilingual phenomenon
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammed Abdul Aleem
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For children: When games periods are cancelled, Petu and his friends unearth a sinister conspiracy
Arundhati Venkatesh
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For children: Muniya’s Abbu is not her father. He found her abandoned on a train. Who is her mother?
Mandira Shah
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A new book of classical Indian literature shows the connections between various literary traditions
Srinivas Reddy
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Sahitya Akademi awards: K Vaishali wins Yuva Puraskar, Nandini Sengupta wins Bal Sahitya Puraskar
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How literature and art can help us rethink our problems with sleep
Paul Huebener, The Conversation
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Interview: ‘Regional queer writing counters stereotype of queerness as a Western import’
Sharif Rangnekar
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‘For me, writing has become both the healing and the means to heal’
Uddipana Goswami
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Why some Indian language Dalit writers have to hide their caste in their works
Joel Lee K Satyanarayanan
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How the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky overcame his gambling addiction
Stephen Dobson, The Conversation
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‘We’re very different people’: Comedian imagines a conversation between Jane Austen and Emily Brontë
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