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Avik Chanda
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Revisiting Rana Safvi’s Delhi trilogy shows how her books capture long-term history, not moments
From the first city of Delhi to the living city, Safvi maps changes across centuries with depth and precision.
Avik Chanda
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‘For a fuller understanding of modern India, we must also investigate the princely states’
An interview with Manu Pillai, whose latest book addresses the role played by the princely states during the freedom movement.
Avik Chanda
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Re-reading ‘Empress’: As a feminist historian, Ruby Lal offers a scholarly look at Nur Jahan’s life
Yet, is the feminist mode the only way of studying this text?
Avik Chanda
Trending
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Questions arise when police arrest Mohammed Zubair, but not Nupur Sharma, says retired SC judge
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India’s mass closure of schools is leaving lakhs of students stranded
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‘Media, politicians totally clueless’: Sudhir Chaudhary on Zee News before leaving the channel
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SC lists Zee Hindustan anchor Rohit Ranjan’s plea in Rahul Gandhi case for hearing without petition
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How the Modi government has weaponised the ED to go after India’s Opposition
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This book breaks new ground in history by bringing together Mughal politics and Sufi spiritualism
Muzaffar Alam’s ‘The Mughals and the Sufis’ is a remarkable and original work of scholarship.
Avik Chanda
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‘The Sanskrit texts divided horses into castes, just as they divided people’: Wendy Doniger
An interview with the author of ‘Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares’.
Avik Chanda
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Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty on how climate change upends long-standing ideas of modernity
‘Questions arise when we assume that technology can keep solving problems regardless of the nature of the problem.’
Avik Chanda
Video
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Watch: Fan celebrates cricketer Dinesh Karthik’s captaincy with portrait made of 600 Rubik’s cubes
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Paris: Protestors demonstrate against US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs Wade
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Watch: This cable TV channel only dubs Korean shows in Kannada for local audiences
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Watch: Plane lands safely after 14-hour flight despite a tyre burst that blew a hole in the body
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Watch: Tasmanian devil refuses to return phone that fell into its enclosure at wildlife sanctuary
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‘I love English, French. But I chose Bengali as a creative medium’: Trilingual writer Chinmoy Guha
An interview with Sahitya Akademi award winner Chinmoy Guha.
Avik Chanda
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Kunal Basu’s latest novel in English depicts a search for motherhood as much as one for a mother
In ‘Sarojini’s Mother’, an adopted daughter returns to Kolkata in search of her biological mother.
Avik Chanda
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A new book chronicles the life of Dara Shukoh, the heir apparent to Shah Jahan whom Aurangzeb killed
An excerpt from Avik Chanda’s account of the life and death of Shah Jahan’s eldest son.
Avik Chanda
The Reel
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‘Dr. Arora’ trailer: Web series takes a humorous look at sexual problems
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Circle of love: Nagesh Kukunoor on going from ‘Hyderabad Blues’ to ‘Modern Love Hyderabad’
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Start the week with a film: ‘American Honey’, the flip side of the American Dream
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In ‘Shamshera’, a ‘masala potboiler’ and Ranbir Kapoor as ‘never seen before’
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Deepti Naval at the movies: Single-screen theatres, Rajesh Khanna and ‘Mera Naam Joker’