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Ipshita Mitra
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‘General Firebrand and His Red Atlas’: What is happening to my neighbour will also happen to me
Even though Tathagata Bhattacharya’s novel is replete with accounts of strife, violence, and crime, the central themes are healing and recovery.
Ipshita Mitra
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‘Your Utopia’: Bora Chung’s new book of short stories is an explosion for the senses
The stories, a visual treat in execution and tight in conceptualisation, will leave the readers breathless. Anton Hur’s translation is exquisite.
Ipshita Mitra
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‘Industrial Roots’: Penury, paucity, and pain of working-class women are unmissable in these stories
Nothing in the stories seem bizarre or random. Remember, it all began with a freak accident in which Uncle Tom was killed by a freight train.
Ipshita Mitra
Trending
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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Anjali Joseph’s ‘Keeping in Touch’ is an ode to (extra)ordinary lives in the guise of a romance
The stories of two individuals caught in something of a conundrum.
Ipshita Mitra
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How protesting women farmers mirror ‘The Five Women’ in Mahasweta Devi’s decades-old story
A foreshadowing in fiction of the role chosen by women in the farmers’ protest.
Ipshita Mitra
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How to not be mentally distressed during the lockdown: Read Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’
‘However strange your experience, other people have had it too,’ wrote Woolf in this 1926 essay.
Ipshita Mitra
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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On Tom Alter’s death anniversary, a friend pays a tribute to the actor’s craft and beliefs
An interview with M Sayeed Alam, the founder of Pierrot’s Troupe who directed Alter in several plays and knew him intimately for two decades.
Ipshita Mitra
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The ministry of utmost translation: Lenka Lichtenberg on translating Arundhati Roy into Czech
‘You have to use all your sensitivity to create the same feeling and impact in a completely different language.’
Ipshita Mitra
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An exhibition looks back at Frida Kahlo’s life and beliefs – through her choice of clothes
The exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up’ in London shows how the Mexican artist controlled and constructed her identity.
Ipshita Mitra
The Reel
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk
An interview with the translator of three of Pamuk’s recent books.
Ipshita Mitra
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If you check in at the world’s largest literary hotel, you might never want to go out (or leave)
In the Portuguese town of Óbidos is The Literary Man, where books rule over everything.
Ipshita Mitra