Great Books
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Nobel laureate JM Coetzee’s provocative first book turns 50 in 2024. And his most controversial, 25
‘Dusklands’ and ‘Disgrace’ address the complicity of writers in events that are too easily dismissed as beyond their capacity to influence.
Andrew van der Vlies, The Conversation
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Walter Benjamin’s ‘Illuminations’ is a remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker
The writings in the book were produced between 1923 and 1940. Some were published in journals and other places, but some were only published posthumously.
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
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In Sanskrit plays, paradise is always lost, but the attempt to regain it never ends
Why would anyone read Sanskrit literature today? Writer Shashi Deshpande explores how we read these ancient plays now.
Shashi Deshpande
Trending
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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‘Animal Farm’ has been translated into Shona: Why a group of Zimbabwean writers undertook the task
A dozen writers contributed to the translation of ‘Chimurenga Chemhuka’ (Animal Revolution) over five years.
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, The Conversation
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Why Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’, now 50 years old, is the ‘Iliad’ of our times
The book’s deepest desire to sing of the “multitudes who are passed over by God and History” has rightly accorded it a place among Dante, Milton and Homer.
Julian Murphet, The Conversation
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Explainer: Why Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ is one of the greatest scholarly books ever written
In his seminal 1978 bookSaid explores the ways Western experts, or ‘Orientalists’, have come to understand and represent the East.
Cyma Hibri, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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‘Everyone who read her was shocked into awareness’: Mini Krishnan, Bama’s first publisher in English
‘Bama’s Karukku, particularly in Lakshmi Holmstrom’s English, drilled a hole in the wall of both religious hypocrisy and caste consciousness.’
Mini Krishnan
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What makes Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy so meme-worthy?
A new study delves deep into the psyche of Generation Z to understand why the beloved character resonates so well with its members.
Tom Kirk
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How De Quincy’s ‘Confessions’ elevated the (opium) addict to a cultural figure for the first time
The user seemingly rebels against the quotidian. And for the artist-addict, drugs are a muse.
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
The Reel
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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In Cannes-bound ‘In Retreat’, a Ladakh that has rarely been seen before
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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The irony of far-right Spaniards appropriating Don Quixote as a nationalist crusader
Miguel de Cervantes's novel ‘Don Quixote’ was a parody and a critique of Spanish imperialism.
Roberto Suazo, The Conversation
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Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ and the problem of terrifying moral complacency
The book that gave us the term ‘the banality of evil’.
Peter Christoff, The Conversation
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‘Lord of The Rings’: A guide to the expanded world of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s other books
There is a whole universe in several books that expand what we know outside of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’.
Helen Fulton, The Conversation
The Field
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Boxing: Preeti to headline India’s 50-member squad for Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championship
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Watch, highlights ISL 2023-24: Odisha FC beat Mohun Bagan Super Giant in first leg of semi-final
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Archery, World Cup Stage I: Indian men’s and women’s compound teams through to finals
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ISL 2023-24: How first-time head coach Petr Kratky helped Mumbai City FC pick up the pieces
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IPL 2024: Marcus Stoinis helps Lucknow breach the Chennai fortress with unbeaten century