literature
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Cecília Meireles, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar: Latin America’s literary encounters with India
Laura Erber
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Why Mohammed Hanif uses satire to write about Pakistan
Shoaib Daniyal Priyali Dhingra
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‘Bibhutibhushan’s writings are a commentary on our ideas of civilisation inherited from colonisers’
Debotri Ghosh
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Comics: Daddy is not sure how he and Shampoo became friends. But now their lives are changed forever
Aditi Mali
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A ‘New York Times’ critic used AI to write his book review. But criticism is deeply human
Bec Kavanagh, The Conversation
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‘The hissing from downstairs / (it was the cats, not the lady)’: An anthology of South Asian poems
Daya Dissanayake Gautam Vegda Indran Amirthanayagam Kamalakar Bhat Nipuni Ranaweera
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‘If All the World Were Paper’: A rich imagination of premodern South Asia through Hindi literature
Sakshi Nadkarni
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Readers’ comments: On India’s reading culture, a thank you for a mirror and reminder
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How interwar fiction made sense of an increasingly noisy world
Anna Snaith, The Conversation
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David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 30: Weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven
Julian Murphet, The Conversation
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Remembering K Saraswathi Amma (1919-1975), who confronted misogyny in Malayalam literature
Sreekala Sivasankaran
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How the 16-year-long Namantar Andolan led by Dalit communities created a new aesthetic in literature
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
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‘Blind Owl’: Sadeq Hedayat’s 1936 death-haunted masterpiece shadows the decline of modern Iran
Hossein Asgari, The Conversation
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How Martin Wickramasinghe shaped an understanding of Sri Lanka – and South Asia
Uditha Devapriya
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I was enthralled by ‘Crime and Punishment’ at 14. Rereading it after 60 years, I’m still awed
Kevin John Brophy, The Conversation
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‘A companion in quiet corners of life’: My grandmother’s hidden rebellion in reading Taslima Nasrin
Reeti Roy
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Literary history: Maulana Daud’s ‘Candayan’ and the beginnings of writing and literature in Hindi
Tyler W Williams
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NoViolet Bulawayo wins the best of 25 years of the Caine Prize. This is why she deserves it
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, The Conversation
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Disabilities and madness: How literature treats them tells us much about society’s ideas
Vibhu Vasudev
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‘The Mad’ by Ignatius Mabasa: African novels are being translated into English in a bold new trend
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, The Conversation