books
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Why an investigative journalist felt compelled to 'out' Elena Ferrante (and what she can do now)
Carlo Pizzati
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The (minimum-spoiler) review of Chetan Bhagat’s 'One Indian Girl' in five steps
Devapriya Roy
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What Sun Tzu can teach us about how to attend a book launch
Krishna Udaysankar
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How Kasturba remembered her special moments with Mohandas
Neelima Dalmia Adhar
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How a thousand-year-old Sanskrit love poem has travelled the world
Anu Kumar
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Ann Patchett’s ‘Commonwealth’ is a dizzily unplotted novel that teaches you to live magnanimously
Devapriya Roy
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Why Sri Lankan-American writer Hasanthika Sirisena is an outsider and likes it that way
Smriti Daniel
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To be (born) or not to be (born)? This could have been the central question of 'Nutshell'
Rhema Mukti Baxter
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Aubrey Menen’s ‘Rama Retold’ tells us to laugh at the Ramayana. No wonder it’s still banned
Satyavrat KK
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International Translation Day: Why I read Tagore in translation (and why I translate)
Somrita Urni Ganguly
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Two arguments (and rebuttals) that suggest India is not a secular state
Nalini Rajan
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Satire: When you’re giving birth, but Mummyji is in charge
Madhuri Banerjee and Rohini Tiwari
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Benyamin's new story again disguises sociology as gripping fiction, but it's no 'Goat Days'
Arunava Sinha
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From the poet of ‘We Sinful Women’, two poems for the times
Kishwar Naheed
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So you think people on Facebook and Twitter don’t read books?
Damini Kulkarni
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Forget Orhan Pamuk. Burhan Sonmez has written the real Istanbul novel
Burhan Sönmez
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Kiese Laymon is the writer you haven’t heard of in India, but must read. Because #BlackLivesMatter
Devapriya Roy
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Watch: Chetan Bhagat researched the lives of women for his new book by getting a wax
Scroll Staff
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At 150, HG Wells would have found his social (and not just scientific) prophecies coming true today
Simon John James, The Conversation
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Urdu is a homeless language in India. The Vice-President tells us how to change that
M Hamid Ansari