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Sayari Debnath
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‘The American Boyfriend’: This mystery about mistaken identities makes for a leisurely vacation read
As Phoebe and her two-year-old daughter’s vacation gets increasingly un-vacation-like, she realises the sooner she leaves, the better.
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‘Absolutely fantastic’: Writing platform Pratilipi CEO a year after publishing books with Westland
An interview with Pratilipi co-founder and CEO Ranjeet Pratap Singh.
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‘Pakistan’s erasure of the 1971 Liberation War from conversations is dangerous’: Author Aamina Ahmad
‘Nations often don’t want to confront troubling histories but it strikes me as imperative that we do.’
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Trending
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Constitution does not allow preferential treatment for religious majority: SC judge BV Nagarathna
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Readers’ comments: ‘Most Kerala Hindus are already lost’
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Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images of the Madras famine?
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Hockey, Men’s Junior Asia Cup final, IND vs PAK as it happened: India are champions after 2-1 win
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Thailand Open 2023: PV Sindhu knocked out in opening round; Kiran George stuns world No 9 Shi Yu Qi
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‘A challenge of translating from Rajasthani is to keep its orality alive in English’: Vishes Kothari
‘I can’t help but marvel at how Rajasthani is thriving outside urban centres. The huge adoption of the language on social media is particularly heartening.’
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May fiction: Stories set in newly independent India, dystopian near-future India, and more
Two novels in translation, three novels originally written in the English, and a collection of short stories translated from the Hindi.
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‘Truth/Untruth’: Mahasweta Devi’s novel about a pregnant maid’s death is as comedic as it is morbid
Translator Anjum Katyal is astute, sharp, and the perfect mediator for Devi’s words.
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Video
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‘You’re a thief’: Debate participants shout at one another on live TV in Kolkata
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Watch: Climate activists from Just Stop Oil briefly hold up England cricket team’s bus in London
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Did you know there’s a Korean rap version of the Bollywood hit song ‘Jimmy Jimmy’?
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Caught on camera: The moment that missile debris fell on a busy Kyiv road, narrowly missing a car
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Watch: Beyoncé pays homage to Tina Turner during London show singing ‘River Deep – Mountain High’
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New in May: Six recent books of nonfiction show how far India has come – and how far it can go
Stories about one of the greatest sportsman of India, the biography of India’s first tribal president, the long fight for natural conservation, and more.
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‘I wanted to show that mothers are worthy’: Bonnie Garmus, author of ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
‘Everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules, including ourselves. The idea that someone’s atoms and molecules are not as good as yours is false.’
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‘I always think of married women with children as very sad people’: Writer Buku Sarkar
‘I have very intense friendships unlike Anjali and Anita. But they were childhood friends trying to stay in touch as adults, which is always challenging.’
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The Reel
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Review: In ‘Fire in the Mountains’, the enormous burden of womanhood
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‘Chitrakut’ review: A wandering tour of complicated relationships
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Start the week with a film: The documentary ‘Tina’ is a tribute to an irrepressible spirit
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‘Citadel’ review: Secrets, lies and banality
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‘City of Dreams’ season 3 review: Political drama is running out of ways to deliver the shocks
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April fiction: Four novels and two short story collections to read this month
A novel inspired by an episode from ‘The Mahabharata’, a middle-aged couple’s love story, a man from Motihari who falls in love with an American woman, and more
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‘Mother Muse Quintet’: Naveen Kishore’s new book of poetry offers lyrical gratitude to memories
What do we do with the love we have for a person who is no longer around?
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New in nonfiction: Six recently published books to better understand contemporary India
Two memoirs, the first of an ambitious two-volume biography of BR Ambedkar, the cinematic legacy of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, and more.
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The Field
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Hockey, Men’s Junior Asia Cup final, IND vs PAK as it happened: India are champions after 2-1 win
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French Open 2023: Bopanna-Ebden defeated in opener; Bhambri-Myneni cruise to second round
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Thailand Open Super 500: Lakshya Sen, Kiran George register big wins; top seeds Chirag-Satwik out
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Sports world daily: PSG confirms final game for Lionel Messi at club, Sevilla win Europa League
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Hockey Men’s Junior Asia Cup: Boby Singh Dhami nets hat-trick as India beat Korea 9-1 to reach final