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‘For Now, It Is Night’: Kashmiri writer Hari Krishna Kaul’s stories get a new life in translation
The translators show how translations of Kashmiri short stories can be creative while remaining faithful to the author’s voice and style.
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Dalit poet Kalyani Thakur Charal’s poetry is her powerful call for affirmative action
Charal’s straightforwardness in ‘I Belong to Nowhere’ tells us that poetry doesn’t have to be elusive or seeped in metaphors to make a point.
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‘Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS’ is a celebration of the biggest boy band in the world
The ten-year anniversary memoir is at once an encyclopaedia for the uninitiated and an emotional roller coaster ride for longtime fans.
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Trending
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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View from the Margins: A Dalit Christian explains why he will be voting for change
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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EC rejects claims that EVMs gave extra votes to BJP in Kerala mock polls, SC reserves verdict
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Beyond the hype: Why the BJP is eyeing Tamil Nadu’s most prosperous region
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This collection of modern Tibetan essays offers heartfelt, heartbreaking accounts of survival, hope
‘The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays’ is the first anthology of essays by Tibetans-in-exile published in India, but it certainly should not be the last.
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‘Some say my translations read like originals, and originals, like translations’: Aruna Chakravarti
An interview with translator turned critically-acclaimed author, Aruna Chakravarti.
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Kashmir’s stories are best told by Kashmiris themselves, shows this anthology of short fiction
Curated and translated by Neerja Mattoo, ‘The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told’ is a chronicle of transition and trauma.
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Video
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Watch: Glimpses of Indian singer Sid Sriram’s debut performance at Coachella 2024
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Kashmiri Pandits and the exodus: Eight books that go to the heart of the pain and trauma
A memoir, an autobiographical novel and fiction written from lived experience.
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The new biography of Agha Shahid Ali is a love letter to the poet but not a critical view of a life
Manan Kapoor’s ‘A Map of Longings’ builds greatly on what others have said and written about the poet from Kashmir.
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Meena Kandasamy’s documentary on Sri Lanka’s women Tamil warriors is now her latest book
With ‘The Orders Were To Rape You’, the writer takes the trauma of the participants towards posterity.
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The Reel
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Watch: ‘The Broken News’ returns for a second season
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ trailer: A teenager bonds with her grandparents during a summer vacation
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‘Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout’ review: A bland cop meets a dull case
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‘Juna Furniture’ trailer: Mahesh Manjrekar directs and stars in film about ageing
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Tokyo Sonata’, the unequal music of an emotionally distant family
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‘Terrarium’: A debut poetry collection that is therapeutic, nuanced and bursting with wisdom
With her debut collection, Urvashi Bahuguna displays the skill and depth of a seasoned poet.
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Akhil Katyal’s poetry observes, records, and churns present-day truths
‘How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross?’ is an overwhelming chronicle of our times in verse.
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‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English
The first in a series of interviews featuring women translating texts from and into different languages.
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The Field
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Cricket: Meg Lanning opens up about struggle with food and exercise that led to her early retirement
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Paris Olympics 2024: Long jumper Sreeshankar Murali ruled out of Games with knee injury
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Badminton: Kento Momota, former world champion, announces international retirement
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju drops to second after draw against Fabiano Caruana
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Endgame: Indian Grandmasters are daring to dream at the 2024 Candidates