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Mallik Thatipalli
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‘The Living Air’: A birder’s long tryst with birds show how they help overcome human fallibilities
‘The Living Air’ is as much about birding in general as it is about birding in Hyderabad. The author evokes the city in silent and subtle ways.
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘We want to help people to discover new books’: Hyderabad gets a new independent bookshop
‘I did not want to live in a city where they were no bookstores. . .and that led to me starting Luna.’
Mallik Thatipalli
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‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad
An interview with Nazia Akhtar, the author of ‘Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose.’
Mallik Thatipalli
Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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This children’s library in Hyderabad almost closed down during the pandemic. What revived it?
How The Book Shelf founder Haripriya Bathula fought to keep her library alive through the pandemic.
Mallik Thatipalli
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Low costs, moderate hopes: How Hyderabad’s last independent bookstore is trying to survive Covid-19
Owner Lakshmi Myneni says the bookshop has survived other shocks and will ride out this one.
Mallik Thatipalli
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The Art of Solitude: A traditional Telugu version of Ludo is helping bring a semblance of normalcy
Conversation and laughter over games of ashta chamma will be the memories of this anxious time after it has passed.
Mallik Thatipalli
Video
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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PUBG and Warcraft can’t teach the life lessons that these traditional Indian board games did
A store in Hyderabad is trying to re-popularise South Indian games such as puli-joodam, basavanna-ata, daadi and others.
Mallik Thatipalli
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The story of textiles in independent India is closely linked to the life of one Hyderabadi woman
A new book documents the achievements of Suraiya Hasan Bose, who is single-handedly responsible for the revival of many forgotten weaves.
Mallik Thatipalli
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Why a tiny Hyderabad store with tattered old books has been attracting scholars for decades
Ahmed Bafanna founded Haziq and Mohi to make sure that the books bequeathed to him go to the right people. Now his relatives are continuing his legacy.
Mallik Thatipalli
The Reel
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller
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In Hyderabad, a Loo Café is challenging the poor perception of Indian public toilets
The city’s first luxury public washroom comes with free-to-use toilets, an ATM, an attached cafe, and a premium on cleanliness.
Mallik Thatipalli
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Trash talk: An illustrator wants Indians to live waste-free and heal the world
Shubhashree Sangameshwaran’s debut book illustrates the benefits of adopting the zero-waste lifestyle.
Mallik Thatipalli