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Books and Ideas
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Cat in a spat: Why scrapping Dr Seuss books is not cancel culture
On what would have been Dr Seuss’s 117th birthday, plans were announced to halt publishing and licensing six of his books.
Kate Cantrell, The Conversation & Sharon Bickle, The Conversation
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How the retelling of old tales in new form creates an economy of fiction that can trigger change
Like currency notes, stories change hands and gain new value in the process.
Varsha Ramachandran
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From Goa to London with Graham Greene: A first-person account of a literary friendship
Maria Aurora Couto writes of her long association with the famous novelist.
Maria Aurora Couto
Trending
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With new OCI notification, India has ended its experiment with dual citizenship
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Real-life ‘Terminal’: How people manage to live at airports for months and years
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All your questions about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine answered
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At long last, Australian television has begun reflecting some of the country’s ethnic diversity
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First Brexit made me feel an outsider in Britain. Now Covid-19 has made me feel unwanted in India
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Revisiting ‘The Descent of Man’: Darwin’s 150-year-old classic on sex, race and our ape ancestry
It is striking how some of Darwin’s most radical claims are now taken for granted while some of his other views were clearly embedded in Victorian stereotypes.
Ian Hesketh, The Conversation & Henry-James Meiring, The Conversation
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A galaxy of underground poets of Bengal emerge in this book as truth-tellers and myth-busters
‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’ surfaces poetry associated with a culture in a state of ferment.
Parthapratim Dasgupta
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Nine locations and one pandemic later, this independent bookstore still woos Patna’s booklovers
The story of Atmanand Das and Books-En-Amee, which he founded in 1979.
Harsh Aditya
Video
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Watch: Ex-Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat pulls autorickshaw with rope to protest against fuel prices
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Watch: Hit government officials with sticks if they don’t listen, says Union Minister Giriraj Singh
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Caught on Nandan Nilekani’s camera: Black panther and leopard on the verge of an encounter
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Watch: Mumbai woman celebrates 100th birthday after being vaccinated against Covid-19
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Watch: Big dog interrupts woman every time she wants to practise yoga
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How fiction can help business managers prepare for the uncertainties of the pandemic
Not just one, but eight ways to do it.
Nada Elnahla, The Conversation & Ruth McKay, The Conversation
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How a French governor in Bengal wanted to drive the English out from India in the 18th century
An excerpt from ‘Hooghly: The Global History of a River’, by Robert Ivermee.
Robert Ivermee
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Hindi writer Bhuwaneshwar has been largely forgotten. A new book of his stories revives his work
‘Alas the human heart’, a short story from ‘Wolves and Other Stories’, Bhuwaneshwar, translated by Saudamini Deo.
Bhuwaneshwar
The Reel
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‘Thunder Force’ trailer: Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer play unlikely superheroes
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Jean-Luc Godard: ‘Today’s cinema only thinks action and not silence’
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Sahir Ludhianvi at 100: Why the poet and film lyricist was the original ‘Angry Young Man’
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Five animated films that ‘Bombay Rose’ director Gitanjali Rao wants you to watch
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‘7 Kadam’ trailer: Ronit Roy and Amit Sadh play father and son in football-themed show
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Where do India’s Muslims really stand on family planning? This book scrutinises the myths
The ‘Introduction’ to The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India, by SY Quraishi.
SY Quraishi
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How reading books aloud can draw us into intimacies
It can be more than merely sociable. It can be deeply seductive, forging intimate as well as community bonds.
Kiera Vaclavik, The Conversation
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Cooking wild boar? A recipe book from the palaces of Nepal’s Rana dynasty shows how
An excerpt from Rohini Rana’s ‘The Rana Cookbook: Recipes from the Palaces of Nepal’.
Rohini Rana
The Field
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Premier League: Liverpool slip to sixth straight defeat at Anfield as Fulham boost survival hopes
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Swiss Open Super 300 badminton: PV Sindhu outplayed by relentless Carolina Marin in final
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Football: Steven Gerrard guides Rangers to first Scottish League title in ten years
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Watch: Ravi Shastri on ICC’s WTC qualification criteria, trolls and importance of man-management
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PV Sindhu vs Carolina Marin, Swiss Open Super 300 final as it happened: Marin races to the title