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Saloni Sharma
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In the Mumbai of ‘Rohzin’, the real collides with the imagined and history joins hands with folklore
‘Rohzin’ was originally published in Urdu in 2016 and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018. It has been translated into English by Sabika Abbas Naqvi.
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Paradise of Food’: Horror lurks in kitchen corners in Khalid Jawed’s fiction of hostility
Despite its eschewal of realism, this novel is a text cognisant of the political climate it has been written in.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Kaikeyi’ tells the story of one of the women the Ramayana forgot to give a voice to
Vaishnavi Patel’s debut novel, in a defiant act of reclamation, rescues the eponymous queen from eternal erasure and allows her to tell her own story.
Saloni Sharma
Trending
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‘This is hell,’ say HIV patients as government body stops supply of life-saving drug
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The travelogue of an Indian maharaja who disliked China and loved Japan
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Twitter account that led to Mohammed Zubair’s arrest does not exist anymore
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Why ex-servicemen in India don’t get many job offers after retiring from the armed forces
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Uddhav Thackeray resigns as chief minister of Maharashtra
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‘Homeward’: This anthology of polyphonous pieces talks about what home means in North-East India
In this new poetics of space, home is no longer a fixed location.
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This Malayalam novel is part-speculative fiction, part-cautionary tale, part-dystopic narrative
TD Ramakrishnan’s debut novel, ‘Alpha’, presents an experiment with human nature gone terribly wrong.
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‘Run and Hide’: Pankaj Mishra’s novel takes a hard look at the politics of optics in modern India
The tension between liberal democracy and populism that defines much of our current political climate is brought to life in Mishra’s characters.
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Video
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Watch: Dog teaches itself how to ride a bodyboard to retrieve balls that fall into the swimming pool
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‘Law is being weaponised’: Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa on the arrests of Zubair, Teesta Setalvad
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Watch: Abortion clinic in Alabama forced to turn away patients after Roe v Wade was overturned
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Watch: Chris Martin sings ‘A Sky Full of Stars’ at local pub after Glastonbury Festival in the UK
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Watch: Half a billion dollars worth of drugs set on fire in Myanmar on World Drug Day
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Upamanyu Chatterjee asks in his new novel what villainy is, and offers uncomfortable answers
The storyline of the novel is all too familiar to anyone who has followed the lives of the rich and the famous in post-liberalisation urban India.
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‘The Middle Finger’: Saikat Majumdar’s new novel interrogates privilege in the world of teachers
Majumdar delves into the world of academia and the spaces that literature inhabits inside and outside the classroom.
Saloni Sharma
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‘Adam’: S Hareesh’s collection of short stories is a disturbingly real study of dark human behaviour
We are like his characters, even when separated by boundaries of language or geography or species.
Saloni Sharma
The Reel
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Watch: Ron Howard’s ‘Thirteen Lives’ revisits the 2018 Thailand cave rescue
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‘Saas Bahu Achaar Pvt Ltd’ trailer: Amruta Subhash in show about pickles and empowerment
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Watch: True crime series ‘Indian Predator’ kicks off with case of Delhi serial killer
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‘Subtle nuances of human relationships’: Why Satyajit Ray adapted ‘Postmaster’ and ‘Samapti’
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Watch: The trailer of series ‘Modern Love Hyderabad’ is out
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‘Qabar’: KR Meera’s novel deftly explores religious polarisation with a feminist sensibility
The novel nudges the reader towards empathy and acceptance.
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‘Smashing the Patriarchy’ argues for a new kind of feminism in India, away from older models
Sindhu Rajasekaran locates contemporary women’s struggles as decidedly more individual and centred in the still-controversial idea of postfeminism.
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‘A Time Outside This Time’ asks uncomfortable questions of responsibility and complicity
Amitava Kumar’s new novel asks what is the role of fiction is in a world where truth itself has become casualty.
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The Field
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Watch, Wimbledon 2022: Djokovic eases past Kokkinakis, says pleased with how he raised his level
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Rahul Dravid: ‘Rohit Sharma not yet ruled out of Test, stand-in captaincy call up to selectors’
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CWG 2022, Boxing: Nitu Ghanghas hopes for winds of change, Birmingham and beyond
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Cricket: Deepak Hooda on his first T20I century, competition in the team, mindset change and more
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Malaysia Open Super 750: Sindhu gets past Chochuwong, Kashyap through to Round 2; Nehwal defeated