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Durba Chattaraj
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Reading ‘The Dawn of Everything’ from India: What if the past was a more enlightened place?
In their new book, David Graeber and David Wengrow imaginatively challenge the conventionally accepted arc of the progress of civilisation.
Durba Chattaraj
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Author’s lament: Why Amazon closing down Westland feels like we’re living in a Mohsin Hamid novel
‘What, really, is a book worth in the world? This overnight shutdown feels more personal still.’
Durba Chattaraj
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‘The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy’ is essential reading for our times. Especially for the young
Clues, partial answers and starting directions to solving some of the great puzzles and questions playing out in India today.
Durba Chattaraj
Trending
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Readers’ comments: ‘Most Kerala Hindus are already lost’
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Constitution does not allow preferential treatment for religious majority: SC judge BV Nagarathna
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Pro-BJP accounts lead trolling of CJI Chandrachud, researchers show
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Caught in the middle of Manipur’s ethnic conflict, Meiteis who follow Christianity
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Video: Watch this breakdancer’s amazing performance in sari and high heels
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A blueprint for creating new readers in the post-pandemic world (or, what publishers need to do)
To create a new generation of readers in India, we will need a new generation of books.
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This book retrieves the horrific memories of a massacre in Bengal from the dustbin of history
In 1979, the Left Front government’s attack on refugees in Marichjhapi led to hundreds of deaths. ‘Blood Island’ is the oral history of survivors.
Durba Chattaraj
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A book featuring lynching photographs from America brings home a reality we cannot ignore
Allowing us to view lynching from a distance, ‘Without Sanctuary’ makes us realise our own complicity.
Durba Chattaraj
Video
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‘Carpet or road?’: Watch the freshly laid surface of a Maharashtra highway being peeled off
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Caught on TV: Joe Biden lets out a chuckle as a reporter asks if he will ever pardon Donald Trump
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Watch: Daily commuters cheer for a motorman of Mumbai local train on his last day of work
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Watch: How the sheriff’s team rescued a bear trapped inside a vehicle in Nevada, USA
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Watch: Performer with one leg gets standing ovation for dance on Britain’s Got Talent
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A French novel, written by a Mauritian writer, brings home our experience in India like few books do
‘Eve Out Of Her Ruins’ is written by Ananda Devi, a writer of Indian origin from Mauritius.
Durba Chattaraj
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Arundhati Roy’s novel lays bare the horrors and hopes of our times. This is not holiday homework
Whatever your political leaning, left, right or neither, you can’t stop reading this book.
Durba Chattaraj
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‘To me fiction can never be a manifesto with animated characters doing your bidding:’ Arundhati Roy
‘Dancing on the streets that we have marched on...even while the lynch mobs are out, and the vigilantes...spit and jeer – that’s utmost happiness.’
Durba Chattaraj
The Reel
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‘Chitrakut’ review: A wandering tour of complicated relationships
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Start the week with a film: The documentary ‘Tina’ is a tribute to an irrepressible spirit
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‘Citadel’ review: Secrets, lies and banality
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‘City of Dreams’ season 3 review: Political drama is running out of ways to deliver the shocks
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‘Jogira Sara Ra Ra’ review: Funny in bits and bobs