Bottom Shelf
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The spirits in Manoj Das’s near-forgotten stories makes you wonder who the real ghosts are
The stories in ‘Farewell to a Ghost’ comprise a lament for the past.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
Continuing our series on near-forgotten books from the past that are worth reading in the 21st Century.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories provide a taste of what made his novels so powerful in their times
These works grapple with social issues, injustice and oppression, pitting rich against poor, upper castes against lower, men against women.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Trending
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Australian journalist leaves country amid visa troubles, says ‘too difficult to do my job in India’
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Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
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‘The Kerala Story’: Why did Catholics re-release a Hindutva movie days before polling?
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Dubai: How a high-altitude jet stream, not cloud seeding, created a storm ‘the size of France’
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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago
Rereading Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut novel from 2000, ‘What The Body Remembers’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness
Continuing our series on all-but-forgotten books with a journey through Verma’s ‘The World Elsewhere and Other Stories’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi
In his 1940 novel ‘Twilight in Delhi’, Ahmed Ali situates both desire and sadness in a city that lives now in the memories of its characters.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Video
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Eco India: How can India deal with its mounting tyre waste?
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Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition
In his 1994 novel ‘Looking Through Glass’, the historian and writer uses magical realism in fiction to depict a saga we’re all familiar with.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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In Abraham Verghese’s deeply moving tale about friendship, tennis is both a comfort and a metaphor
‘The Tennis Partner’, published in 1998, is the perfect read before (and after) the Wimbledon final.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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It’s too soon to forget this warm, charming novel about an underdog in big, lonely Mumbai
We dusted our copy of ‘Arzee the Dwarf’ to revisit a three-foot something protagonist who’s waiting for ‘the age of Arzee’. Alas, trouble lies ahead.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Reel
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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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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If you love Indian graphic novels, don’t forget the one that came at the beginning
Weird people with weirder obsessions made for the weirdest cocktail of stories.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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The first autobiographical novel by an Indian woman writing in English was both beautiful and profound
Krupabai Satthianadhan’s ‘Saguna’, which appeared in 1887, was largely autobiographical.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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What English mathematicians thought of the ‘Hindoo calculator’
Revisiting ‘The Indian Clerk’, David Leavitt’s bionovel of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Field
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Archery, World Cup Stage I: Jyothi Surekha Vennam finishes second in women’s compound qualification
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Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula overtakes Manika Batra as India’s highest ranked women’s singles paddler
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IPL 2024: Sandeep Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal lead Rajasthan Royals to dominant win over Mumbai Indians
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Squash: Saurav Ghosal announces retirement from professional circuit
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Chess: Gukesh Dommaraju – inexperienced, expected to fail, but the chosen Candidate