books
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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
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‘The transistor’: A chilling short story from Kashmir
Shahnaz Bashir
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What Shilpa Shetty taught us about the art of reading novels is revealed in these 35 mini-reviews
Ahona Panda
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What the mythologies of the Western worlds could mean for Indian philosophies (and vice versa)
Devdutt Pattanaik
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Demonetisation in fiction: Peppermint sweets replace the rupee as currency in this short story
Aadhavan Dheetchanya
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How the Seemanchal Literary Festival drew me out of my happy bubble, a first for a litfest
Rheea Mukherjee
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Here is a new way to read Elena Ferrante: Try walking through Naples
Veena Muthuraman
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The ICSE English literature syllabus has changed. But Harry Potter and Agatha Christie, really?
Devapriya Roy
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First read: When the Tamil Lalgudi Iyer discovers he is the reincarnation of Bhima
Ryan Lobo
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Who would have thought Jhumpa Lahiri and Elena Ferrante had so much in common?
Priyanka Borpujari