Great Books
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Nobel laureate JM Coetzee’s provocative first book turns 50 in 2024. And his most controversial, 25
‘Dusklands’ and ‘Disgrace’ address the complicity of writers in events that are too easily dismissed as beyond their capacity to influence.
Andrew van der Vlies, The Conversation
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Walter Benjamin’s ‘Illuminations’ is a remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker
The writings in the book were produced between 1923 and 1940. Some were published in journals and other places, but some were only published posthumously.
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
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In Sanskrit plays, paradise is always lost, but the attempt to regain it never ends
Why would anyone read Sanskrit literature today? Writer Shashi Deshpande explores how we read these ancient plays now.
Shashi Deshpande
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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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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The BJP wants an Opposition-free Gujarat. But some are putting up a fight
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Readers’ comments: Article on South Asia’s view of India is ‘horribly biased’
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‘No Muslim can win, now or in the future’: In Assam’s Barpeta, delimitation fears confirmed
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‘Animal Farm’ has been translated into Shona: Why a group of Zimbabwean writers undertook the task
A dozen writers contributed to the translation of ‘Chimurenga Chemhuka’ (Animal Revolution) over five years.
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, The Conversation
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Why Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’, now 50 years old, is the ‘Iliad’ of our times
The book’s deepest desire to sing of the “multitudes who are passed over by God and History” has rightly accorded it a place among Dante, Milton and Homer.
Julian Murphet, The Conversation
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Explainer: Why Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ is one of the greatest scholarly books ever written
In his seminal 1978 bookSaid explores the ways Western experts, or ‘Orientalists’, have come to understand and represent the East.
Cyma Hibri, The Conversation
Video
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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’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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‘Everyone who read her was shocked into awareness’: Mini Krishnan, Bama’s first publisher in English
‘Bama’s Karukku, particularly in Lakshmi Holmstrom’s English, drilled a hole in the wall of both religious hypocrisy and caste consciousness.’
Mini Krishnan
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What makes Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy so meme-worthy?
A new study delves deep into the psyche of Generation Z to understand why the beloved character resonates so well with its members.
Tom Kirk
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How De Quincy’s ‘Confessions’ elevated the (opium) addict to a cultural figure for the first time
The user seemingly rebels against the quotidian. And for the artist-addict, drugs are a muse.
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
The Reel
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Watch: Manoj Bajpayee’s hundredth movie ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ is a revenge drama
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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How actor Shahana Goswami flies under the radar and above the competition
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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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The irony of far-right Spaniards appropriating Don Quixote as a nationalist crusader
Miguel de Cervantes's novel ‘Don Quixote’ was a parody and a critique of Spanish imperialism.
Roberto Suazo, The Conversation
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Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ and the problem of terrifying moral complacency
The book that gave us the term ‘the banality of evil’.
Peter Christoff, The Conversation
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‘Lord of The Rings’: A guide to the expanded world of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s other books
There is a whole universe in several books that expand what we know outside of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’.
Helen Fulton, The Conversation
The Field
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten ton helps Mumbai secure much-needed win over Hyderabad
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India tour of Bangladesh: Visitors register commanding win in rain-affected fourth T20I
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Table Tennis, Saudi Smash: Manika Batra stuns world No 2 Wang Manyu; Desai-Ghorpade beat fifth seeds
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Brijesh Tamta, Aryan Hooda shine as India bag five gold medals
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Olympics, Athletics: India’s men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams make the cut for Paris Games 2024