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Urvashi Bahuguna’s memoir of mental illness shares and bares her affliction, and talks of hope
The essays in ‘No Straight Thing Was Ever Made’ draw from her earlier book of poems, but now the illness follows the author everywhere.
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JCB Jury interview: ‘All these books are going to change conversations for better or worse’
A short conversation with Aruni Kashyap and Tejaswini Niranjana, two members of the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature jury.
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How Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a doctor in the US, wrote a prizewinning debut collection of short stories
An interview with the writer of ‘White Dancing Elephants’, a book of stories exploring betrayal, violence, loss, racism, desperation, and disappearance.
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Trending
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Journalist Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV
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Evolution doesn’t need millions of years. Tiger snakes on an island have evolved over just a century
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U19 Women’s T20 World Cup: You know Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh, meet rest of India’s squad
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Ten students suspended in Ajmer university for watching BBC documentary on Gujarat riots
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Why you can’t keep Anurag Kashyap down
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Why is everyone suddenly reading this Japanese novel? The translator tries to explain
The Morgan Giles interview: ‘I talked about translating the book non-stop for two years till the publisher gave in’
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Just how global is the 2019 Man Booker International Prize longlist of translated fiction?
It’s not so much the individual hits and misses as the fact that large parts of the world are not represented. Are translated books from those areas so poor?
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To read Samanta Schweblin’s short stories is to expect a dry mouth and a loss of words
The stories in ‘Mouthful Of Birds’ were written before the Argentinian author’s acclaimed novella ‘Fever Dream’.
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Video
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Watch: Three snow leopard cubs on a mountain road at night flee as car drives behind them
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Watch: Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav sings Hindi film hit with singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya
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Watch: Former Pakistan cricket captain Sarfaraz Ahmed sings for cricketer Shan Masood at his wedding
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‘Space travel will let us live forever’: Video of writer Ray Bradbury’s 1974 interview resurfaces
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‘Let’s make bubble tea’: Interactive Google Doodle marks third anniversary of boba tea emoji launch
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‘Milkman’: This year’s Man Booker winner ensures we do not underestimate ourselves as readers
The critical and popular response to the novel has been decidedly mixed.
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In a landscape of new literary awards, what can readers take away from the DSC Prize longlist?
The 16 novels reveal attention to translations, but largely remain limited to known and expected heavyweight authors.
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JCB Prize longlist: What we think about when we think about contemporary fiction from India
Ten novels that offer both common themes and unique points of divergence.
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The Reel
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Why you can’t keep Anurag Kashyap down
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Start the week with a film: ‘Force Majeure’ is a chilly satire about modern marriage
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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‘Gandhi Godse – Ek Yudh’ review: Sincere, plodding effort to debunk WhatsApp myths about the Mahatma
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‘Pathaan’ review: Shah Rukh Khan lights up an entertaining spy thriller
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An alternative literary prize aims to be what the Nobel Prize hasn’t been – inclusive and democratic
The 2018 Literature Nobel was cancelled amidst allegations of sexual assault, but the New Academy is inviting votes for an alternative prize.
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‘I didn’t want the tragedy to arrive as a kind of what-will-happen-next page-turner’: Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy on never reading Tagore until she began researching her ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’, and why she turns to Chekov for writing inspiration.
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How translator Jennifer Croft won £26,000 and the Man Booker International Prize
Croft won for her translation of ‘Flights’ from the Polish of Olga Tokarczuk’s unusual novel in fragments. This is how she did it.
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The Field
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ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup: Reactions as India become champions – ‘Huge shot in the arm’
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India vs New Zealand, 2nd T20I: Yuzvendra Chahal replaces Umran Malik as hosts look to bounce back
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U19 Women's T20 World Cup: India’s Archana Devi takes a superb catch in the final against England
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Novak Djokovic defeats Stefanos Tsitsipas to claim tenth Australian Open crown – ‘King of Melbourne’
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Watch, Australian Open: Novak Djokovic is a bundle of emotions after winning his 22nd Grand Slam