Excerpted with permission from ‘Drawing Disaster: A Lost Sketchbook’ by Argha Manna and Debkumar Mitra, Famine Tales: A Graphic Anthology, edited by Ayesha Mukherjee, Abhijit Gupta, Sujit Kumar Mondal, and Shrutakirti Dutta, Jadavpur University Press.
Reading
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Readers’ comments: Our culture and Hinduism are more important than the Indian economy
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Before the 1971 war, India and Pakistan were skirmishing on another front: Brazil
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Ramachandra Guha: 75 years later, Ambedkar’s warnings about potential pitfalls have come true
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‘Mrs.’ trailer: Sanya Malhotra plays a put-upon housewife
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Why is India’s middle class so silent about the slowing economy?
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Constitution vs Manusmriti: The Sangh owes it to India to clarify its position
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Hindutva leader Ritambhara, key figure of Ram temple movement, among Padma Bhushan awardees
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How global pandemics shaped ‘A Passage to India’, EM Forster’s final novel
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‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Girl with the Needle’ is a superbly crafted, haunting fable