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Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Family history in a wine bottle: From Vietnam to Argentina via Pondicherry and Paris

The transoceanic adventures of Nazma Asgarally and her husband Aziz Abdul, the proprietor of the El Paraiso vineyard.

Ananya Jahanara Kabir
· Nov 06, 2022 · 11:30 am
Writing Pondicherry: Writers Ari Gautier and Ananya Jahanara Kabir in conversation

Gautier talks about his novel Le thinnai / The Thinnai and story collection Nocturne Pondichéry to Kabir, who is an academic.

Ari Gautier
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Ananya Jahanara Kabir
· Oct 16, 2021 · 12:30 pm
The Art of Solitude: Theodor Fontane’s ‘Effi Briest’ has become only richer with time

Moral of the story: don’t allow yourself to get bored – a great message for the universal lockdown.

Ananya Jahanara Kabir
· Apr 16, 2020 · 11:36 am

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Five exhilarating dance moves that celebrate the traumas of modernity

An Indian academic studies the human capacity to convert pain and humiliation into happiness and exuberance.

Ananya Jahanara Kabir
· Jan 01, 2015 · 12:15 am