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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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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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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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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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: 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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‘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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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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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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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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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar, bowlers help Mumbai Indians seal thriller against Punjab Kings
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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