Language Of Literature
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‘What’s the story?’: Writer Sara Suleri’s student discovers his teacher afresh in her memoir
‘Immediately, I am struck by her sour wordplay, the gleeful piss-taking, a cagey indirection. An exuberant voice absent in our seminar vibrates from the page.’
Ajay Gandhi
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How the English department of Aligarh Muslim University nurtured contemporary Urdu literature
Urdu writers and literary critics at the university have contributed in their own meaningful ways to keep the Persio-Urdu literary culture alive.
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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How the politics and language of ‘coming out’ in the LGBTQ community have evolved over the centuries
It began with the need for community, gradually transforming into a radical, political movement.
Abigail C Saguy, The Conversation
Trending
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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Business history: How Jaypee Infratech’s stalled construction projects left homebuyers in the lurch
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From the East to the West, how much is lost (and found) in translation?
Is translation really the act of ‘chewing a bite already chewed by someone else’ – or is there more to it?
Humair Ishtiaq, Dawn.com
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A case for the apostrophe, the punctuation mark that is polarising the literary world
The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up to preserve the correct use of the punctuation mark.
Roslyn Petelin, The Conversation
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Slaying the Snark: What Lewis Carroll’s nonsense verse tells us about reality
His nonsense poem, ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ may be a puzzling read but it was a concerted attack on realism by the English writer.
Nina Lyon, Aeon
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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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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Did Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking ‘Things Fall Apart’ subvert colonial structures – or uphold them?
It was a pivotal moment in modern African writing but did Achebe’s use of English help transcend national boundaries or was it ‘colonisation of the mind’?
Sarah Jilani, The Conversation
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How a linguistics teacher created an entire anarchist language inspired by Ursula K le Guin
The iconic science fiction writer left clues to the Pravic language in her novel, ‘The Dispossessed’.
Martin Edwardes, The Conversation
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What does ‘Orwellian’ (also ‘Dickensian’ and ‘Kafkaesque’) mean, anyway?
It all began, as one might have expected, with ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
Nick Bentley, The Conversation
The Reel
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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success
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So you’re a reader, but do you know what these words really mean?
A 'cloud' was once a hill, and a 'girl' was a child of either sex.
Debika Lahiri
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Text. Texture. Textile. What words about writing really mean
The etymology of “author” points to someone who invents things or makes things grow.
Debika Lahiri