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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‘Panchayat’ Season 3 review: We’re back in Phulera but we’re not sure why
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The personal toll of political vitriol: A decade under Modi has torn apart families, friendships
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How Rukmini Devi Arundale modernised the Kalakshetra sari and made ‘Ahimsa silk’ fashionable
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A Tamilian in Kalinga: Why state pride is at the centre of Odisha’s election
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In the rise and fall of voter turnout in 2024, a sharp regional divide
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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: ‘The Garfield Movie’ screened specially for cats and their owners in Dubai cinema hall
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Cyclone Remal: Scenes of damage as heavy rain and storms batter parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal
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Watch: When the ‘All We Imagine As Light’ team danced on the red carpet before the Cannes screening
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Eco India: Is traditional building the path to eco-harmony in the Himalayas?
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Eco India, Episode 261: Can ancient know-how revive sustainable mountain ecosystems?
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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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‘Panchayat’ Season 3 review: We’re back in Phulera but we’re not sure why
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Io Capitano’, a gripping tale of flight and fight
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The miraculous resurrection of Nirad Mohapatra’s Odia classic ‘Maya Miriga’
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Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix shows why free expression is vital for FTII and other institutions
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Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia is first Indian to win Grand Prix for ‘All We Imagine As Light’
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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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Tennis, French Open: Rafael Nadal after first round loss – ‘I had tough moments, but I enjoyed’
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Tennis, French Open: Iga Swiatek makes winning start before Rafael Nadal bows out in opening round
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Tennis, French Open 2024: Merci Rafael Nadal
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Tennis, French Open: Sumit Nagal bows out with first-round loss to Karen Khachanov
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Watch, French Open 2024: Rafael Nadal after exit – ‘If this was the last time, I have enjoyed it’