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Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘We’re both very superstitious’: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell get candid about ‘Tomb Of Sand’
A free-wheeling chat with International Booker Prize winners Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell’s about superstitions, Hindustani music, sparrows, and more.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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International Booker Prize 2022: Notes from the readings before the prize announcement
Several of the shortlisted authors and translators read from their books at the Southbank Centre in London. Whose names will be announced as winners today?
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel may be the most original and undefinable work of our times
In Daisy Rockwell’s virtuoso translation, this Hindi novel has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman & Vighnesh Hampapura
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Making savoury curries with sweet fruits has always been an Indian specialty
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Why Congress lost Chhattisgarh
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Stolen fingerprints, empty bank accounts: How customers are paying for gaps in Aadhaar
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Why KCR lost Telangana – and what it means for state parties
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Election results: What does BJP’s hegemony in the Hindi belt mean for Indian politics?
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‘Avasthe’: UR Ananthamurthy’s novel interrogates politics for its relationship with love and life
Unfortunately, this English version is more of a novel-sized rendition of the novel than a living, breathing translation.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’: Why we can’t stop reading a novel featuring an unlikeable adolescent
Elena Ferrante’s latest is true to the limitations of its narrator – and the lies of living.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent
In the original, this Tamil novel foreshadows its famous successors like ‘One Part Woman’, but the English version flattens its registers.
Yashasvi Arunkumar & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Wasn’t it obvious?’: Billie Eilish confirms her coming out at Variety’s Hitmakers red carpet event
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Watch: Schoolboy struggles to leave house as pet cat keeps climbing on his back
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Caught on camera: Actor Mumtaz dances to a classic Asha Bhosle song with the singer by her side
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‘My body is in Paris, but my heart is in Gaza’: Arab rapper dedicates award to Palestinian children
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Watch: Reluctant pet dogs refuse to go past the cat settled on the stairs
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‘You feel left behind. You can divert that anger to demand justice, or towards radicalisation’
An interview with Åsne Seierstad, the author of ‘The Bookseller of Kabul’ and ‘One Of Us’.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘The best shows, like Breaking Bad, come from people who have plunged deeply into literature’
An interview with Stephen Greenblatt, whose latest book examines Shakespeare in the context of present-day political dictators.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘We actually think in poetry. Because we cannot speak in poetry, we speak inadequately’: Lemn Sissay
An interview with poet, essayist, playwright and scriptwriter Lemn Sissay.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘Mast Mein Rehne Ka’ trailer: Jackie Shroff, Neena Gupta star in slice-of-life comedy
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Start the week with a film: Russian literature and Kangra painting meet in ‘Kasba’
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Vir Das: ‘Humanity without laughter wouldn’t survive very long’
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Watch: ‘House of the Dragon’ season 2 teaser trailer is out
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‘The Boys’ season 4 trailer: Homelander grows in influence as Butcher tries to rally his team
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‘Does upper caste society acknowledge the private reservations it has had for years?’: Yashica Dutt
An interview with the writer of ‘Coming Out As Dalit’.
Vighnesh Hampapura
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A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction
In the five short stories in ‘Bullocks From The West’, Na Muthuswamy asks troubling questions about the insidious intensity of everyday events.
Vighnesh Hampapura