literature
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Nature’s rhythm and rhyme: Remembering William Wordsworth 250 years since his birth
Sally Bushell, The Conversation
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What can literature tell us about the post-coronavirus world that lies beyond the dark mountains?
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Unmade in India: Five homegrown dystopian books that have been where we hope not to go
Annika Taneja
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Five detective novels you can read to beat the boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown
James Peacock, The Conversation
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Lockdown reading: If you’re looking for escape, here are five Victorian novels to transport you
Pam Lock, The Conversation
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A brief literary companion to solitude in modern classics for the self-isolated reader
Sayandeb Chowdhury
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Who says you don’t have to go to school just because you’re dead? Not in this novel
Anita Roy
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Poet Langston Hughes enjoyed international stardom but never felt at home in America
Jason Miller, The Conversation
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What Albert Camus’s ‘The Plague’ can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic and our response
Rohan Parikh
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Mirza Waheed wins the Hindu Prize 2019 for fiction, Santanu Das for non-fiction
Mirza Waheed Santanu Das
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‘The Masque of the Red Death’: Read Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling 19th-century tale
Edgar Allan Poe
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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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‘Jaipur Journals’ is set in a literature festival to explore the writing life in all its complexity
Pragya Tiwari
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This survey of Indian literatures seeks a mode of reflective and long-term response to suffering
Nikhil R
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This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that it could have been non-fiction
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Is science fiction an instrument of escapism or a mirror to our realities?
Gavin Miller, The Conversation
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Why read translations? Or, why there is no borderless literature and why that is not bad at all
Berthold Franke
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Boyhood, friendship and the precarious state of democracy make the novel that is ‘The Cliffhangers’
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it
Vishes Kothari
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How post-World World War II America fell in love with romance comics
Michael C Weisenburg, The Conversation