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Ipshita Mitra
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Anjali Joseph’s ‘Keeping in Touch’ is an ode to (extra)ordinary lives in the guise of a romance
The stories of two individuals caught in something of a conundrum.
Ipshita Mitra
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How protesting women farmers mirror ‘The Five Women’ in Mahasweta Devi’s decades-old story
A foreshadowing in fiction of the role chosen by women in the farmers’ protest.
Ipshita Mitra
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How to not be mentally distressed during the lockdown: Read Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’
‘However strange your experience, other people have had it too,’ wrote Woolf in this 1926 essay.
Ipshita Mitra
Trending
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The British government is offering farmers a lump sum payment to quit agriculture
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Zubair arrested for posting image from 1983 film, complaint by Twitter handle with just one tweet
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Winter has come: The arrest of Teesta Setalvad
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How India missed the bus – and why we must catch up now
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‘This is hell,’ say HIV patients as government body stops supply of life-saving drug
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On Tom Alter’s death anniversary, a friend pays a tribute to the actor’s craft and beliefs
An interview with M Sayeed Alam, the founder of Pierrot’s Troupe who directed Alter in several plays and knew him intimately for two decades.
Ipshita Mitra
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The ministry of utmost translation: Lenka Lichtenberg on translating Arundhati Roy into Czech
‘You have to use all your sensitivity to create the same feeling and impact in a completely different language.’
Ipshita Mitra
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An exhibition looks back at Frida Kahlo’s life and beliefs – through her choice of clothes
The exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up’ in London shows how the Mexican artist controlled and constructed her identity.
Ipshita Mitra
Video
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‘A crisis shaped by mindset’: Greta Thunberg calls for climate action in Glastonbury festival speech
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‘Every dog deserves their day’: 17-year-old Chinese Crested-Chihuahua crowned World’s Ugliest Dog
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Watch: Man dressed as UK PM Boris Johnson chased by ‘police’ during England v New Zealand test match
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Watch: Child joins drag queen’s performance at a busking event held in a Hyderabad metro station
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‘Over, out’: US school teacher uses a ‘preposition rap’ to teach students grammar
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What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk
An interview with the translator of three of Pamuk’s recent books.
Ipshita Mitra
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If you check in at the world’s largest literary hotel, you might never want to go out (or leave)
In the Portuguese town of Óbidos is The Literary Man, where books rule over everything.
Ipshita Mitra