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Annie Zaidi
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Why do the rich and the powerful sponsor literature festivals, prizes, and art in today’s world?
Annie Zaidi, whose novel ‘Prelude To A Riot’ won the Tata Lit Live award for ‘Book of the Year – Fiction’, offers some answers.
Annie Zaidi
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Annie Zaidi’s new novel takes us to a south Indian town where trouble is being brewed, deliberately
An excerpt from ‘Prelude to a Riot’, in which Annie Zaidi shows us how communal violence is instigated.
Annie Zaidi
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How far to Auschwitz? Why we need to read Lidia Ostalowska’s ‘Watercolours’ to look for an answer
A book that details Nazi ambitions in general and concentration camps in particular, ‘Watercolours’ is a constant reminder and a warning.
Annie Zaidi
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India Today takes anchor Rajdeep Sardesai off air for two weeks for tweet about farmer’s death
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Virat Kohli uses an 'MRF bat'. Rohit Sharma uses a 'CEAT bat'. But whose bat do they really use?
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Whichever way you look at it, Modi’s handling of the farm laws has been a complete mess
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Nine health workers have died in vaccine rollout. India must disclose status of probe into each case
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Green card reform, no more Muslim ban: What Biden’s immigration proposals promise
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‘Untitled-1’: Read a scene from the play that won Annie Zaidi The Hindu Playwright Award 2018
‘Set in a dystopian future, it examines the metaphors in the stories we relate about ourselves...’
Annie Zaidi
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Neeraj (1925-2018): ‘I grew so infamous in my time, it will take centuries for me to be forgotten’
Remembering the poet and lyricist who died on July 19.
Annie Zaidi
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Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain
With ‘Day’ and ‘Dastan’ Intizar Husain rewrites the Partition without violence, gauging its impact on people.
Annie Zaidi
Video
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Watch: Meet the woman behind Bernie Sanders’s mittens made of old sweaters, recycled plastic bottles
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Watch: Golden retriever ‘practises’ menacing faces in the mirror
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What will ultra-high-speed travel be like? Watch this simulated video from Virgin Hyperloop
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Watch: Dazzling pink and green auroras dance over northern Finland skies
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Watch: Kashmir’s first igloo restaurant opens in Gulmarg
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This novel reveals things about contemporary India that cannot be proved (or we prefer not to see)
The stories of being Muslim in today’s India are beginning to emerge in fiction.
Annie Zaidi
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Reading the poetry of Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is to be reminded of his love for everything
The acclaimed Hindi poet, who was also a critic and essayist, died on March 19, 2018.
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'Lifer giving advice to new convict in female ward': A poem by Annie Zaidi
'Men! The things they make us do! Do you really want to go back?'
Annie Zaidi
The Reel
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‘The Courier’ trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch plays a British spy in Cold War thriller
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Watch: AR Rahman launches ‘maajja’ platform to promote independent music
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Warner Bros releases sneak peek of ‘Suicide Squad’ sequel, new films with Hugh Jackman, Will Smith
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‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’: Series revisits LA hotel linked to several crimes
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‘Silk Road’ trailer: Crime thriller examines the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his darknet site
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Do young girls willingly join the Islamic State to be terrorists?
A new novel looks for answers, and find resentful teenagers willing to trust strangers.
Annie Zaidi
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If you don’t believe in the paranormal, can you explain these?
Paranormal experiences feel real. But do they correspond to an equally real ‘existence’ somewhere out there?
Annie Zaidi