Stories written by
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘I want to connect culture, people, food in one sentence’: Restauranteur and food writer Asma Khan
‘To eat is a privilege, but just because you’re poor, a refugee, or in a war zone doesn’t mean that you are someone without the right to feel satisfied.’
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman & Vighnesh Hampapura
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‘I was testing the boundaries of motherhood and its impact on creative life’: Writer Bee Rowlatt
An interview with the author of ‘Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad’ and ‘In Search of May’.
Vighnesh Hampapura & Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘We are all subject to transplantation’: Perumal Murugan on why ‘Fire Bird’ resonates with readers
The eighth in the series of podcast interviews with the authors and translators longlisted for the 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Fire Bird’: Perumal Murugan could have shaped the novel’s characters with a more decisive force
However, the beauty of the book lies in the way it cultivates complex ideas by carefully composing its plot.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘The Light at the End of the World’: An overcrowded novel that floods the reader’s senses
Siddhartha Deb’s novel is led by the urge to remind its reader at every step that everything carries traces of the political-historical-social.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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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
Video
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Watch: Glimpses of Indian singer Sid Sriram’s debut performance at Coachella 2024
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Salma’s women dream of many things in this novel, but we cannot grasp the dreamers
For a novel that seeks to focus on its characters, ‘Women, Dreaming’ offers little beyond skeletal structures of them.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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Moustache: This magical, playful novel features people made not of flesh and blood, but of stories
S Hareesh’s debut novel, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, is a flowing journey with many detours and no central narrative thread.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
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‘The Silence of the Hyena’: Syed Muhammad Ashraf’s stories are animal fiction with a big difference
Most of the stories cleverly focus on the interactions between humans and animals.
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman
The Reel
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Watch: ‘The Broken News’ returns for a second season
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ trailer: A teenager bonds with her grandparents during a summer vacation