Fiction Pick
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‘Fear of Flying’: Erica Jong’s 1973 book has joyful abandon rarely found in today’s sad girl novels
Jong was writing as second-wave feminism was in the ascendancy and her novel often reads like a feminist manifesto.
Kath Kenny, The Conversation
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‘The Man of the House’(or, the life and death of Aanun): A short story by Maaz Bin Bilal
A story featuring ‘a Dilli-wallah to the core, claiming an ancestry of four hundred years in the city’.
Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘Yakshi’: This short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James is a sensual parable for our times
Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.
VJ James
Trending
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Why are so many young Indians trading in cryptocurrency, especially in tier-two cities?
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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Fiction pick: ‘The Ladder of Yarn’, a short story by Malayalam language writer VJ James
Translated from the Malayalam by Ministhy S.
VJ James
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After ‘Daura’: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s Rajasthan novel about water
What happened after the district collector in the novel disappeared?
Anukrti Upadhyay
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‘I want to be Tagore’: The story for which every Punjabi student knows Mohan Bhandari (1937-2021)
The Punjabi writer died on November 26, 2021 at the age of 84.
Mohan Bhandari
Video
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Watch: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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‘The cost of hunger’: Abdus Samad’s poignant short story about life as a displaced Muslim in Assam
‘Beard. I want to shave off my beard.’
Abdus Samad
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Gulzar on the tragedy of Afghanistan: Four poems and a short story
Translated from the original Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil.
Gulzar
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‘No Man’s Land’: Anuradha Sharma Pujaree’s short story riffs on a football match in Meghalaya
It’s the game of life where the losers pay more.
Anuradha Sharma Pujaree
The Reel
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Watch: In animated prequel, Baahubali and Bhallaladeva unite to defeat the warlord Raktadeva
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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‘The Virus’: Is this short story actually a work of fiction in pandemic-struck India?
‘Do you know who this man is? Have you any idea how dangerous he is?’
Sirsho Bandopadhyay
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‘The Roshogolla Makers’: A sweet short story for the age of the pandemic
What happened after Bhanjo Mishtanno Bhandar in Kolkata had to close because of the lockdown.
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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Short story: ‘The Finding’. (Or, a discovery that stunned a world reeling under a pandemic)
‘It had all started rather casually with some questions and jokes, leading to more enquiries and friends asking other friends, followed by WhatsApp forwards.’
Arundhati Ghosh
The Field
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IPL 2024: Hyderabad deliver death-bowling masterclass to defeat Rajasthan in last-ball thriller
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ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Rohit Sharma, Ajit Agarkar on team selection, KL Rahul’s omission and more
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India tour of Bangladesh: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana guide India to victory in third T20I
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Salima Tete to lead Indian women’s team for European leg
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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian women lose to Japan, men to China in quarter-finals