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Satyavrat KK
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In Bengaluru, reading groups (some of them underground) are using books to live outside the machine
Strangers are joining hands for causes after being brought together by an interest in books.
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‘It’s not just Church Street’: In Bengaluru, these three Kannada bookshops have their own identities
Because Kannada writers are stars in their own right, with a wide readership.
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What three second-hand bookshops on the same street say about Bengaluru’s reading culture
Blossoms, Bookworm, Select. All within a stone’s throw of one another. How does the city nurture them?
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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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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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Over 17,400 citizens write to EC seeking action against PM Narendra Modi for hate speech
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Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today
Think of the liberal elite getting snarled while events take their own course.
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It’s easy to see why the Right wanted this book about Indians’ beef-eating history to be banned
DN Jha’s ‘The Myth of the Holy Cow’ examined facts, and its detractors didn’t like that.
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Why this book on India’s annexation of Sikkim needs to be read today
Sunanda K Dutta Ray’s ‘Smash And Grab’ wasn’t banned, but faced enough litigation to keep it out of readers’ reach for nearly 30 years.
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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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Time to lift the ban on what Nehru’s aide wrote about him and his contemporaries?
MO Mathai’s autobiography was merciless in both disparagement and detail. The third in our series on books banned in India.
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Why ‘Angaaray’ was banned (and what it could teach an Indian author about writing of women and sex)
The second in our series on books that were banned in India. This anthology was published in 1932 and banned in 1933.
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Aubrey Menen’s ‘Rama Retold’ tells us to laugh at the Ramayana. No wonder it’s still banned
The first in a series on books that were – and remain – banned in India.
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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