When UR Ananthamurthy said: ‘Kannada can produce a Bertrand Russell, the language is good enough’

An excerpt from ‘A Life In The World: UR Ananthamurthy in conversation with Chandan Gowda’.

UR Ananthamurthy

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Chandan Gowda

· 2 hours ago

‘Don’t act as if you’re all alone’: 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Peter Handke’s lecture

The full text of the Nobel lecture given by the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, in English translation.

Peter Handke

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

‘Fiction has lost the readers’ trust’: 2018 Literature Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s lecture

The full text of the Nobel lecture given by the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, in English translation.

Olga Tokarczuk

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

A new theory of business says companies must stop trying to win if they are to last

An excerpt from business strategist Simon Sinek’s new book, ‘The Infinite Game’.

Simon Sinek

· Dec 08, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Who was Mandodari? Each version of the Ramayana gives Ravana’s wife a different role and story

The rich lattice of story-work gives us a fascinating figure, if not a definitive one.

Bhavana Pankaj, Sahapedia

· Dec 08, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘That night, Daddy left’: In this novel, a marriage, an affair, family history, and a shot at love

An excerpt from Dharini Bhaskar’s debut novel, ‘These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light’.

Dharini Bhaskar

· Dec 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

A new book says the KGB may have killed Albert Camus. His novel ‘The Stranger’ lives on

Camus’s classic offers despair as a form of hope.

Yuvraj Nathani

· Dec 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How video games are changing storytelling by co-opting the player, which fiction still cannot do

The player’s choice drives the narrative, and there are as many stories as there are choices.

Kaustav Sood

· Dec 07, 2019 · 11:30 am

Behind the scenes: How Shah Rukh Khan gambled on a role rejected by Aamir and Salman

Edited extracts from ‘Khantastic’, about the intertwined destinies of the three mighty Khans of Bollywood.

Sanjukta Nandy

· Dec 07, 2019 · 10:30 am

Her father’s memories were slipping away. She made him tell stories so that he could hold on to them

‘Would these forgotten stories in turn help him reconstruct a sense of self?’

Ranu Bhattacharyya

· Dec 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

A case for the apostrophe, the punctuation mark that is polarising the literary world

The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up to preserve the correct use of the punctuation mark.

Roslyn Petelin, The Conversation

· Dec 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘When Babri was brought down I felt no joy’: Confessions of a Dalit who had joined the RSS

An excerpt from ‘I Could Not Be Hindu: The Story of a Dalit in the RSS’, by Bhanwar Meghwanshi, who had joined the kar seva for a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Bhanwar Meghwanshi

· Dec 06, 2019 · 08:30 am