classics
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Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories provide a taste of what made his novels so powerful in their times
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Watch: Singer Dominic Fike collaborates with Paul McCartney for a new rendition of ‘Kiss of Venus’
Scroll Staff
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Listen: Here’s a Sanskrit-inspired rendition of composer Johann Bach’s Suite No 2
Scroll Staff
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In this novel Stephen Alter rewrites the tale of Mowgli and ‘Jungle Book’ in a new time and place
Stephen Alter
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Watch: Here’s a soothing rendition of ‘Maa Mayura’ presented by Carnatic violinists
Scroll Staff
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‘The Play Of Dolls’: Kunwar Narain’s early short fiction also shows why he was a legendary poet
Kunwar Narain
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How do you retell a classic that has already been retold several times over? Ask Gayathri Prabhu
Gayathri Prabhu
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How does a publishing company persuade people in the 21st century to keep reading the classics?
Hattie Adam-Smith
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On Franz Kafka’s 136th birth anniversary, he continues to show us how to fight for our freedom
Rohan Parikh
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Why ‘The Water Margin’, China’s outlaw novel from the 14th century, keeps getting modern versions
Josh Stenberg, The Conversation
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Made to last: How the world’s greatest works of literature find a place in the Penguin Classics list
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Over 150 years later, Maupassant’s fiction is remembered for the questions it asked of morality
M Saad
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Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ at 80: Why we will always return to Manderley
Laura Varnam, The Conversation
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Fifty years later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn as modern Indian literature
Ulka Anjaria
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Turning 200: The ‘Scottish Jane Austen’ was much more satirical about marriage than the real one
Susan Ferrier
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It took a translation to hear the stories of this Greek epic the way a woman would have told them
Veena Muthuraman
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A new Mark Twain book is out, 107 years after his death. But who wrote it?
Vishwadha Chander
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Jane Austen’s greatest novel is 200 years old. No, it’s not ‘Pride and Prejudice’
Robert Morrison, The Conversation
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The erotic in the Indian imagination: A conflict between the romantics and the traditionalists
Amrita Narayanan
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What Alexandre Dumas can teach us (seven times over) about being a bestselling author
Jash Sen