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Nikhil Govind
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Vinod Kumar Shukla: An artist forever seeking to be one with his conscientious creation
Shukla is the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature for 2023.
Nikhil Govind
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A study of the Mahabharata: When Arjuna’s punishment turned into an adventure of love, friendship
An excerpt from ‘The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata’, by Nikhil Govind.
Nikhil Govind
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A new English translation of ‘Ramcharitmanas’ reminds us of the crucial questions Tulsidas asks
‘The Epic of Ram’ affords new ways of asking literary, philosophical and religious questions – both for 16-century urbanised Benaras, as well as for our time.
Nikhil Govind
Trending
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This holiday season, who’s ‘Uninvited’ from Goa?
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‘No data’ and other tactics: How the government is dodging RTI queries on health pacts with Big Tech
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‘Ours is the only Kashmir party under attack’: Waheed Parra on the loneliness of the PDP
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What does the summary expulsion of an Opposition MP say about Parliamentary democracy in India?
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‘Did Ram say kick out the poor?’ The discontent of the displaced in new Ayodhya
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‘Growing Up Karanth’ is a personal sketch of Shivarama Karanth’s life as remembered by his children
Shivarama Karanth was a novelist in the Kannada language, playwright, and an ecological conservationist.
Nikhil Govind
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‘A Time to Change’: How Nissim Ezekiel became the pioneer of a new era of English poetry in India
Published in 1952, the volume was one of the first significant books of postcolonial poetry in English.
Nikhil Govind
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Arundhathi Subramaniam’s new book maps the unique journeys of four lesser-known spiritual travellers
‘Women Who Wear Only Themselves’ provides glimpses of lives beyond those of talkative sadhus who inhabit social media.
Nikhil Govind
Video
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Watch: Men try to frighten elephant with slippers, run away when it charges at them
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Eco India: Could 'adopting a coral' support marine conservation in Goa?
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Eco India, Episode 246: How protecting our oceans could help us in the battle against climate change
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Caught on camera: Mobile tower collapses in Bengaluru, bringing down building on which it stood
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‘At top of the very good boy list’: King Charles gets Santa’s approval ahead of Christmas
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Chetan Bhagat’s new novel works not as a thriller but as an examination of the contemporary family
‘One Arranged Murder’ is a whodunit only schematically. It is more of an appraisal of a metropolitan social ethos.
Nikhil Govind
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Is ‘Suhledev’ history, fiction, or myth? Amish’s new book deliberately blurs the question
Suheldev is essentially a swashbuckling medieval bad boy who is nevertheless up to much good.
Nikhil Govind
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Ambedkar wanted unjust, unconscionable suffering to inform the critical idiom of the Constitution
An excerpt from ‘Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature’, by Nikhil Govind.
Nikhil Govind
The Reel
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Start the week with a film: ‘Somewhere’ is a sensitive look at an actor’s empty life
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Mining town-set film ‘Whispers of Fire and Water’ is an immersive experience
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In Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’, a solidarity that transcends differences
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In animated film ‘The Siren’, a reminder that ‘democracy and peace are never eternal’
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‘Mast Mein Rehne Ka’ review: A cheerfully meandering comedy
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This biography of the Indian Constitution is not about the law today but about the ideal equilibrium
Gautam Bhatia’s book, ‘The Transformative Constitution’ will help many in the path toward legal literacy and thus a fuller and more participative citizenship.’
Nikhil Govind
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This book on Adi Shankaracharya could have been a vital revaluation of tradition. It isn’t
Pavan K Varma’s Atta Galatta-BLF Prize-winning book has its merits but ultimately suffers from too many drawbacks.
Nikhil Govind
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A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life
In ‘Shahryar: A Life in Poetry’, Rakshanda Jalil works as both biographer and translator.
Nikhil Govind
The Field
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England Tour of India: Visitors win low-scoring second T20I by four wickets to clinch series
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Pro Kabaddi League: Haryana Steelers beat Bengaluru Bulls; UP Yoddhas get better of Telugu Titans
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Watch, highlights ISL 2023-24: East Bengal and Punjab FC play out a draw at Salt Lake
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FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup: India beat Canada to enter quarter-finals
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Badminton, Guwahati Masters Super 100: Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto reach women’s doubles final