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K Srilata
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‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry
An excerpt from ‘i, Salma: Selected Poems,’ by Salma. Translated from the Tamil by K Srilata and Shobhana Kumar. Curated and conceptualised by Chandana Dutta.
Salma, K Srilata, Shobhana Kumar & Chandana Dutta
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‘You must write the poems you must write’: Five from K Srilata’s new book of poetry
An excerpt from ‘Three Women in a Single-Room House.’
K Srilata
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‘Everything Drowns, Except This Poem’: A poem by Srilata
‘I am standing in a country of many-hued umbrellas.’
K Srilata
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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Will bring back electoral bonds after wider consultations, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Can the body be a metaphor of protest? These poems by four women poets show us how
Poetry by Karthika Naïr, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, K Srilata, and Anupama Raju.
Karthika Nair, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, K Srilata & Anupama Raju
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The poetry of missing persons: K Srilata’s new book of poems explores the idea of ‘absent presences’
‘But surely, growth, and all sorts of things, / are possible in the life / of a person who has disappeared?’
K Srilata
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‘We have become incapable of holding the trust of birds’, says this ‘green’ writer
An excerpt from ‘Lifescapes’, a collection of interviews with contemporary women writers from Tamil Nadu.
K Srilata & Swarnalatha Rangarajan
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Before #MeToo, there was #BeCareful – and that applied to women who wanted to write books
‘I did my best to stay out of “harm’s way” and just focus on the writing,’ says a poet and academician and woman.
K Srilata
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First read: Why Shiva turned to writing fiction in his ancient temple in Madras
‘Madras on my Mind’ collects twenty stories about the metropolis. Here’s an excerpt from one of them.
K Srilata