Great Books
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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
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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
Trending
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Ahead of Modi’s birthday, Gujarat dam delayed water release – despite heavy rain and official alerts
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Asian Games 2022: With its largest contingent, India aim for biggest medal tally in Hangzhou
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Arundhati Roy: The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
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Why Pir Panjal is now a staging ground for militant strikes, from Rajouri to Anantnag
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Ramesh Bidhuri and the descent of India
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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
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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
Video
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Watch: Several areas in Nagpur, Maharashtra flooded after heavy rain, rescue operations underway
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Watch: Singer Justin Timberlake and his NSYNC bandmates get together to recreate old photograph
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Elephant Appreciation Day: Wildlife charity organisation hosts a fruit feast for their tuskers
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Watch: Monkey spotted fiddling with computer in West Bengal railway station enquiry office
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Caught on CCTV: Three suspects being transported for court appearance escape from police van in UP
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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
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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
The Reel
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Watch: Marathi series ‘Shantit Kranti’ gets a second season
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‘Kumari Srimathi’ trailer: In Nithya Menen-led Telugu show, a woman stakes claim to her inheritance
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‘The Great Indian Family’ review: Well-meaning but simplistic
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‘Sultan Of Delhi’ trailer: Tahir Raj Bhasin leads series about ambition in 1960s India
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Reel vs real: When undercover agents act against India’s enemies abroad
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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
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‘The Stepford Wives’: Why Ira Levin’s feminist horror novel is still relevant 50 years later
‘Suburban living did turn women into robots.’
Michelle Arrow, The Conversation
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‘Persuasion’: Why Jane Austen’s most understated novel, soon to be on Netflix, is worth (re)reading
‘Persuasion’ strikes a contemplative note as Austen explores the emotional depths of her gentle heroine, Anne Elliot.
Thalluri Divya Aslesha
The Field
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ICC Men’s Rankings: India achieve No 1 spot across all three formats
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Asian Games, Table Tennis: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Harmeet Desai lead India to team events knockouts
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Asian Games 2022: With its largest contingent, India aim for biggest medal tally in Hangzhou
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Australia tour of India: Mohammed Shami stars as hosts win first ODI, take 1-0 lead in series
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India at Asian Games, September 23 schedule: Paddlers look to continue good form, sailors in action