Bottom Shelf
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The spirits in Manoj Das’s near-forgotten stories makes you wonder who the real ghosts are
The stories in ‘Farewell to a Ghost’ comprise a lament for the past.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
Continuing our series on near-forgotten books from the past that are worth reading in the 21st Century.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories provide a taste of what made his novels so powerful in their times
These works grapple with social issues, injustice and oppression, pitting rich against poor, upper castes against lower, men against women.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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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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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago
Rereading Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut novel from 2000, ‘What The Body Remembers’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness
Continuing our series on all-but-forgotten books with a journey through Verma’s ‘The World Elsewhere and Other Stories’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi
In his 1940 novel ‘Twilight in Delhi’, Ahmed Ali situates both desire and sadness in a city that lives now in the memories of its characters.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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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Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition
In his 1994 novel ‘Looking Through Glass’, the historian and writer uses magical realism in fiction to depict a saga we’re all familiar with.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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In Abraham Verghese’s deeply moving tale about friendship, tennis is both a comfort and a metaphor
‘The Tennis Partner’, published in 1998, is the perfect read before (and after) the Wimbledon final.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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It’s too soon to forget this warm, charming novel about an underdog in big, lonely Mumbai
We dusted our copy of ‘Arzee the Dwarf’ to revisit a three-foot something protagonist who’s waiting for ‘the age of Arzee’. Alas, trouble lies ahead.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Reel
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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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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If you love Indian graphic novels, don’t forget the one that came at the beginning
Weird people with weirder obsessions made for the weirdest cocktail of stories.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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The first autobiographical novel by an Indian woman writing in English was both beautiful and profound
Krupabai Satthianadhan’s ‘Saguna’, which appeared in 1887, was largely autobiographical.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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What English mathematicians thought of the ‘Hindoo calculator’
Revisiting ‘The Indian Clerk’, David Leavitt’s bionovel of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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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