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These new volumes bring together selections from TS Eliot’s poetry, plays, and critical essays
TS Eliot
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‘Light and Thread’ by Han Kang: A necessary counterforce that values silence and the ‘unsaid’
Reeti Roy
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A personal essay from a new book asks what freedom has meant over the decades for women in Kashmir
Indu Kilam
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From an anthology on loneliness: A couple waits out a violent night of blackout in silence
Mamta Kalia Pooja Sancheti
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‘Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us’ is essential Manu Joseph, complete with hits and misses
Devarsi Ghosh
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In a new book of essays, scholar GN Devy asks whether India risks becoming an anti-knowledge nation
GN Devy
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‘Want’: Gillian Anderson contests cultures of heteronormativity, erasure of female erotic experience
Sakshi Nadkarni
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WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war
Linda Daley, The Conversation
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‘Sucker Punch’: Scaachi Koul’s writings are unable to move beyond the trappings of ‘internet essays’
Diya Isha
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Writer Tabish Khair on how a good book can be an instrument to engage with the ‘outside world’
Tabish Khair
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A new book studies how Indian women ‘Instapoets’ are forming new collective cultural identifications
Medha Bhadra Chowdhury
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Cook, clean, pray: An essay on what it means to be an ordinary working-class woman in Srinagar
Nairu Naqsh
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‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers
Debjani Sengupta
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A Bengali poet writes about being a ‘failure’ despite publishing several books and winning awards
Ranajit Das
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‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision
Nikhil Govind
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Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Shatabdi Ke Jharokhe Se’, by Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha Ashutosh Bharadwaj
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Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu
Perumal Murugan V Iswarya
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In a new book of essays, a writer takes a closer look at her complicated relationship with her body
Scaachi Koul
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‘Merely companies to conduct examinations’: What Lokmanya Tilak thought of Indian universities
Lokmanya Tilak Nadeem Khan Yashodhan Parande
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‘Not such a bad thing’: Why did feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain say this about the burka?
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Ben Baer