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Amitava Kumar
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What have fake news and lies got to do with Amitava Kumar’s new novel? Everything
An excerpt from ‘A Time Outside This Time’, by Amitava Kumar.
Amitava Kumar
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The Art of Solitude: Finding solace by painting over the bad news
Amitava Kumar draws some comfort from his newspapers.
Amitava Kumar
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Writing badly is easy. Novelist Amitava Kumar has some alternative suggestions in a new book
This collection of short pieces offers lessons from the masters on how to be a better writer.
Amitava Kumar
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‘They are Brahmins...have good values’: BJP MLA defends release of Bilkis Bano case convicts
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Gujarat ignored trial court’s opinion as board with five BJP members set Bilkis Bano convicts free
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Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl: A marriage that defied the Third Reich
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An 18th-century letter to Bombay shows what it was like to be in service of the East India Company
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On Rohingya refugees, AAP competes with the BJP in communal rhetoric
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From wars to Partition and 9/11: A writer reacts to Trump's win in words, news clippings and photos
Amitava Kumar looks back at crucial (and often painful) moments in history and how this matches up.
Amitava Kumar
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A writer calls out anti-nationals, cannot find a moral for his story, and decides to become a 'new man'
Three short tales told in tweets.
Amitava Kumar
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Wendy Doniger: Partition may have been averted had Gandhi been less reverential toward cows
A conversation over dinner with the renowned scholar of Hinduism.
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'Never gonna give you up': British musician Rick Astley recreates his 1987 hit for insurance ad
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Caught on live TV: Man steals beachgoer’s bag in Barcelona, arrested later
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Watch: Elephant returns a child’s shoe that fell into its zoo enclosure
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Caught on camera: Criminals rob Rs 6 lakh at gunpoint from Prayagraj shop with people inside
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‘Looks like fried rice’: Comedian Saloni Gaur’s mother, grandmother roast her in spoof on complexion