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Suhasini Patni
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‘You could say I have been working towards my mermaid graphic novels my whole life’
An interview with Sharanya Manivannan, author of the graphic novels ‘Incantations Over Water’ and ‘Mermaids in the Moonlight’.
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Reading Afghanistan as the Taliban take over: Seven books (none of them by Khaled Hosseini)
What fiction, poetry and memoirs from the country can tell us.
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A reader’s guide to the 13 books longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
The shortlist will be announced on September 14, and the winner of the £50,000 prize, on November 3.
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Trending
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Has Modi’s Vande Bharat push come at the cost of train safety?
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Armed gangs and a partisan state: How Manipur slipped into civil war
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How the East India Company tried to use paintings to lionise Robert Clive – and failed
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Sexual harassment allegations by wrestlers are horrific – so why is Modi still backing Singh?
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June fiction reading list: Six recently novels and short story collections by Indian authors
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A reader’s guide to the six books shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2021
The winners of the 50,000 prize, to be shared equally between writer and translator, will be announced on June 2, 2021.
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‘Earthlings’: This novel by the author of ‘Convenience Store Woman’ will make you very uneasy
Sayak Murata writes once again about those who cannot fit into society but have to be part of it.
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‘These, Our Bodies, Possessed By Light’: Women are in love, with their relationships with themselves
Despite the rotating unhappiness of the characters, Dharini Bhaskar’s novel is actually a happy one.
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Video
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Watch: Comedian Danish Sait hilariously spoofs a debate between vegetarians and non-vegetarians
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Watch: Manchester City players, staff serenade Elton John with a rendition of ‘Your Song’ at airport
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Watch: Captured rogue elephant Arikomban is transported in a lorry as onlookers cheer
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Watch: Scenes from the collapse of the bridge over the Ganga in Bihar
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Watch: Elephant charges at safari jeep in Karnataka forest, driver reverses vehicle in time
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A reader’s guide to the ten books on the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize for Literature 2020 longlist
Six women writers, one woman translator, four debut novels.
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A reader’s quick guide to all 13 novels on the Booker Prize 2020 longlist
Of the 13 writers, nine are women, and eight of the 13 books are debuts.
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This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends
Why does Ayoola kill her lovers? Is it self-defence, trauma or because she can? Oyinkan Braithwaite’s ‘My Sister The Serial Killer’ is a quickie done right.
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The Reel
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Watch: Trailer of ‘The Night Manager’ part two is out
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‘Satyaprem Ki Katha’ trailer: Romantic film stars Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani
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Tigmanshu Dhulia on Irrfan: ‘His observation of life was very surgical, very meticulous’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Charlie’s Country’ is a powerful portrait of defiance
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‘Scoop’ review: A flat view of a highly irregular case of police overreach
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This work of auto-fiction is funny, tender, and shattering. Blame the writer, Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is a personal story that kills softly with its terrible beauty.
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For the first time in recent years, a novel set in Afghanistan talks about intimacy, not just war
Jamil Jan Kochai’s focus on this domesticity itself is an act of subversion, and that his family is not just full of tragedy and conflict is a delight.
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A child’s muteness pits nurture and love against a male culture of success in this Iranian novel
Parinoush Saniee’s Iranian novel ‘I Hid My Voice’ also navigates the burdens the women in a family have to carry.
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The Field
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Singapore Open Super 750: Defending champ PV Sindhu faces tough test; HS Prannoy returns to action
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ISSF World Cup Junior: India’s Dhanush Srikanth wins gold in men’s 10m Air rifle event
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Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia rejoin work but clarify that protest against Brij Bhushan will continue
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Indian football: Ashalata Devi, the battle-hardened skipper who is still adding feathers to her cap
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Para badminton: Tokyo Paralympics champion Krishna Nagar’s love for speed and need for calm