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

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Sharon Bickle, The Conversation

· 10 hours ago

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

· 15 hours ago

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

· 19 hours ago

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

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Henry-James Meiring, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

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

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

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

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

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

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Ruth McKay, The Conversation

· Mar 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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

· Mar 05, 2021 · 08:30 am

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

· Mar 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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

· Mar 04, 2021 · 08:30 am

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

· Mar 03, 2021 · 05:30 pm

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

· Mar 03, 2021 · 11:30 am