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Ipshita Nath
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‘Memsahibs’: How British women negotiated food and fear (and love and life) in colonial India
An excerpt from ‘Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India’ by Ipshita Nath.
Ipshita Nath
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Mosquitoes, malaria, medicines: What epidemic season in British India meant for Englishwomen
Apart from the severe diseases that made rounds across the country, fevers of all kinds struck people around them, claiming lives at appalling rates.
Ipshita Nath
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Feeling the heat: How memsahibs in the 19th century tried to party through Indian summers
Cotton dresses, khus tatties, punkahs, cool water baths, or holiday escapades to the hills? What was a memsahib’s way to beat oppressive Indian summers?
Ipshita Nath
Trending
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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Emily Eden’s diary reveals what New Year’s Eve meant for memsahibs in British India
On New Year’s Eve of 1841, Emily Eden wrote a letter back home about how ‘changed’ she felt, and how apprehensive she was about the times that lay ahead.
Ipshita Nath
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How a squeeze on living and writing spaces in Delhi is thwarting aspiring fiction writers
In search of coffee shops and affordable housing.
Ipshita Nath
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Love and lockdowns: What kind of tragic romances will be written after the pandemic?
Lovers needed to escape each other to be able to stay together during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
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Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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What happens when a woman writer decides to write with a male gaze? How does she do it?
Must writing the male gaze be a male writer’s prerogative alone?
Ipshita Nath
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These surreal short stories feature rickshaw drivers in a subterranean version of Delhi
An excerpt from the story ‘A Metamorphosis On The Northern Ridge’, from ‘The Rickshaw Reveries’, Ipshita Nath’s debut collection of short fiction.
Ipshita Nath
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What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?
In Ipshita Nath’s ‘The List’, any resemblance with current events is just that, a resemblance.
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The Reel
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer