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Books and Ideas
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Winners of the 2024 Women AutHer Awards announced in four categories
Novelist Mridula Garg was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Indian writing in both Hindi and English.
Scroll Staff
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Using a real-life example, a doctor shows how music can help in the treatment of Alzheimer’s
An excerpt from ‘The Fight Against Alzheimer’s: How to Prevent, Cure, Care, and Find Hope’, by Shuvendu Sen.
Shuvendu Sen
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Why is India’s consumer market (undeservedly) called underdeveloped? A new book refutes the idea
An excerpt from ‘Lilliput Land: How Small is Driving India’s Mega Consumption Story’, by Rama Bijapurkar.
Rama Bijapurkar
Trending
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Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India
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Seven firms that failed drug quality tests gave money to political parties through electoral bonds
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Why did a Union minister say he would apply for Indian citizenship under CAA?
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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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Why the Opposition is alleging that a WhatsApp forward from Modi is a poll code violation
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Fiction: An unnamed narrator wants to take revenge on the man who molested his sister 30 years ago
An excerpt from ‘The Solitude of a Shadow’, by Devibharathi, translated from the Tamil from N Kalyan Raman.
Devibharathi & N Kalyan Raman
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History of money: How did the Roaring Twenties in America fade out?
An excerpt from ‘Crypto the Disruptor: The Rise of Money from Barter to Bitcoin’, by Mukesh Jindal.
Mukesh Jindal
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In his new book, Sam Pitroda examines whether capitalism can allow a true democracy to prosper
An excerpt from ‘The Idea of Democracy’.
Sam Pitroda
Video
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Watch: Actor Vijay’s car is damaged after thousands of fans throng to meet him in Trivandrum
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‘Time to forget about it’: Miriam Margolyes, who acted in ‘Harry Potter’ films, tells adult fans
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Watch: Protestors lie on the ground together along the seashore in Spain to represent Gaza victims
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Watch: From Sonu Nigam to Shilpa Rao, prominent singers sing ‘Yaaron Dosti’ in a tribute to KK
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Watch: Pilot makes a special announcement with baby daughter to celebrate her first flight with him
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How literature and art can help us rethink our problems with sleep
Seeing sleep purely as a personal responsibility ignores how it is tied to social values and forms of oppression.
Paul Huebener, The Conversation
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‘The Hippo Girl’: Each of these short stories has the potential to be a novel
The characters in Shah Tazrian Ashrafi’s stories are haunted by the history of Bangladesh, but it is not the only thing that defines them.
Atharva Pandit
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‘No such thing as Mumbai theatre’: Writer Shanta Gokhale on the language divide on the stage
‘The fact remains then, that Mumbai’s theatre and literature are not one, but four. I do not say this with regret. I am only stating a fact.’
Shanta Gokhale
The Reel
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‘Adrishyam’ trailer: Eijaz Khan and Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya play undercover agents
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Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
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‘Crew’ trailer: Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon play stewardesses involved in smuggling
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‘I wanted to land this film correctly’: Why actor Kunal Kemmu chose to direct ‘Madgaon Express’
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‘Bear With Me, Amma’: For writer MT Vasudevan, fiction is a blend of reality and imagination
If the short stories in the collection seem to draw from the memoirs, there are also times when the memoirs read like collections of stories in their own right.
Sonal Dugar
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‘If We Burn’: A book that examines why a decade of mass protest has done so little to change things
The American domination of the internet has also contributed to unrealistic views about the nature of social institutions, power and social change.
Christopher Pollard, The Conversation
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A writer goes back in time to Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, to see the place through EM Forster’s eyes
EM Forster was once the private secretary to the Raja of the princely state of Dewas.
John Drew
The Field
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Archery: Deepika Kumari tops national selection trials for World Cup Stage 1 and 2
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Commonwealth Games: Malaysia to consider hosting a downsized edition in 2026; Singapore also in fray
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WPL 2024: From captain Meg Lanning to rising star Shreyanka Patil – The Field’s team of the season
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Wrestling: IOA dissolves ad-hoc committee; elected body to take charge of national federation
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Hockey: Harmanpreet Singh to lead 27-member Indian squad for Australia tour