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  • ‘And above all light’: Writer Tishani Doshi on the ‘truthfulness’ of ‘truth’

    ‘And above all light’: Writer Tishani Doshi on the ‘truthfulness’ of ‘truth’

    Tishani Doshi
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    In this essay, Amitav Ghosh writes about his memories of 9/11 as a resident of Brooklyn, New York

    Amitav Ghosh
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    Opinion: Novelist and professor Saikat Majumdar on humanities education in a post-truth world

    Saikat Majumdar
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  • What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala

    What an elderly English tourist taught writer Anees Salim about his hometown, Varkala

    Anees Salim
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    Conservation biologist Neha Sinha’s essay shortlisted for inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize

    Scroll Staff
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  • The organic intellectual, mystical poetry, and the rationalist tradition in India today

    The organic intellectual, mystical poetry, and the rationalist tradition in India today

    Amit Chaudhuri
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  • Naseeruddin Shah essay: ‘What makes for truth in acting?’

    Naseeruddin Shah essay: ‘What makes for truth in acting?’

    Naseeruddin Shah
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  • How my uncle dodged death and escaped from East Pakistan to India (with a little help from a hen)

    How my uncle dodged death and escaped from East Pakistan to India (with a little help from a hen)

    Anu Kumar
    · Apr 03, 2021 · 10:30 am