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Unmana Datta

Meet Romain Puértolas, the author whose novel inspired Dhanush’s Hollywood debut

Romain Puértolas’s over-the-top novel about a fakir in Europe is now being made into a Hollywood film.

Unmana Datta
· May 22, 2017 · 01:30 pm
Is Bombay the real ‘Friend of My Youth’ whom Amit Chaudhuri writes about in his new novel?

And is the Amit Chaudhuri in the novel really Amit Chaudhuri the writer?

Unmana Datta
· May 14, 2017 · 05:30 pm
‘Women don’t have to be good to be the hero’: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, whose next book is on Sita

The author also reflects on how three decades in activism has influenced her writing

Unmana Datta
· May 07, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘The Rani of Jhansi regiment women felt Bose gave them a chance to be equal to men’: Vera Hildebrand

The Danish author notes that Indian women were trained for frontline combat decades before other armies in the world did so.

Unmana Datta
· Feb 08, 2017 · 08:30 am