Books
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Shiv Visvanathan on the importance of being (and thinking like) Devdutt Pattanaik
Shiv Visvanathan
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Why we can continue to like VS Naipaul’s novels while opposing his ideas
Rifat Munim
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This novel from Indonesia tries to undo a myth from the Mahabharata
Laksmi Pamuntjak
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Ruskin Bond’s Miss Ripley-Bean is back, to investigate unnatural deaths
Ruskin Bond
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The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert)
Smriti Daniel
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What Greek myths have in common with Indian mythology (and why it matters)
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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Will this novel be a bestseller, as its author and publishers hope? This will help you decide
Ira Trivedi
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PG Wodehouse shrugs off wartime controversy to take his place among the greats
Christine Berberich, The Conversation
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When Rabindranath Tagore heard that he had won the Nobel Prize, 105 years ago
Aruna Chakravarti
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‘I write about 350 jokes per book. I throw away about a third of them’: Jeff ‘Wimpy Kid’ Kinney
Neha Bhatt
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The ambitious modern Indian version of ‘Don Quixote’ tries gallantly but falls short
Devapriya Roy
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A dastangoi tells the story of the Pakistani author Intizar Husain
Mahmood Farooqui
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The pre-Independence novel that’s actually about love, not the Partition
Lavanya Shanbhogue-Arvind
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It’s not easy to get a political thriller right. This novel does it
Jai Arjun Singh
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How Swedish literature reflects the benefits of a shorter working day
BJ Epstein, The Conversation
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Why it’s important not just to read (and listen to) stories, but to tell them too
Shohini Sengupta
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My sister is dead: A heartbreaking tale of migration from North-East India
Nandita Haksar
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No one remembers Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist of Victorian Britain
Anu Kumar
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What is a writer to do with freedom? (Or, lessons from Albert Camus)
Rheea Mukherjee
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How Twinkle Khanna is stirring up India’s publishing world (and selling lots of books)
Neha Bhatt