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'The cultural moorings are still there. Now you can get feta cheese too': William Dalrymple on Delhi
William Brown
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Meet Deepak Unnikrishnan, the Indian writer in the US you’ll soon hear about
Anu Kumar
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Futile debate: It's time to stop predicting a winner in the book versus e-book battle
Simone Natale and Andrea Ballatore, The Conversation
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Jeffrey Archer is back with a new book, and it’s the end of a journey
Jeffrey Archer
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The backdrop of war and violence make Sri Lankan novels gut-wrenching. This one shows why
Anu Kumar
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As Man Booker winner Paul Beatty is about to find out, literary celebrity changes everything
Rebecca Braun, The Conversation
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How the use of the present tense in fiction is making readers...tense
Camilla Nelson, The Conversation
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JM Coetzee’s new novel asks a crucial question: When everyone’s the same, can a person be different?
Arnab Chakraborty
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'It isn’t autobiography, but it's a daughter’s book in every way': Madeleine Thien
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Why the Uttara Kanda changes the way the Ramayana should be read
Arshia Sattar
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How to get a Bangalore PhD: Precious Hours of Dining (and Drinking)
TJS George
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When Britain claimed India would be independent without any intention of allowing it
Walter Reid
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American writer Paul Beatty brings back slavery and segregation to win the £50,000 Man Booker Prize
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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In a shock move, HarperCollins India publisher Karthika VK quits after ten years in the job
Arunava Sinha
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'Are you happy we're married?' What do you do when war is the reason you have to marry a stranger?
Anuk Arudpragasam
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First read: The story of the boxer who had to win more bouts outside the ring than in it
Moti Nandy
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Time to lift the ban on what Nehru’s aide wrote about him and his contemporaries?
Satyavrat KK
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The strange case of Taslima Nasrin and authors who spearheaded the ban of her autobiography
Taslima Nasrin
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A ghazal that Ghalib did not write for Ambedkar (but could have)
S Anand
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Why we need a new, truly global, prize for world literature
Mahmud Rahman