Bottom Shelf
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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago
Rereading Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut novel from 2000, ‘What The Body Remembers’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Hindi writer Nirmal Verma’s stories from the 1960s give us people in love with loneliness
Continuing our series on all-but-forgotten books with a journey through Verma’s ‘The World Elsewhere and Other Stories’.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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To read this novel from 1940 is to read an elegy to love and longing in an older Delhi
In his 1940 novel ‘Twilight in Delhi’, Ahmed Ali situates both desire and sadness in a city that lives now in the memories of its characters.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Trending
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Watch: Tiger drags safari vehicle backwards in Bengaluru’s Bannerghatta park
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Sushant Singh death: Republic TV, Times Now reporting ‘prima facie contemptuous’, says Bombay HC
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Watch: Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy dances with contagious energy
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Australia vs India, Brisbane Test: Rain, thunderstorm in weather forecast for Day 5 at Gabba
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Arnab Goswami’s knowledge of Balakot strike is breach of national security, says Shiv Sena
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Mukul Kesavan’s time-travelling photographer tells an unorthodox story of the Partition
In his 1994 novel ‘Looking Through Glass’, the historian and writer uses magical realism in fiction to depict a saga we’re all familiar with.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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In Abraham Verghese’s deeply moving tale about friendship, tennis is both a comfort and a metaphor
‘The Tennis Partner’, published in 1998, is the perfect read before (and after) the Wimbledon final.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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It’s too soon to forget this warm, charming novel about an underdog in big, lonely Mumbai
We dusted our copy of ‘Arzee the Dwarf’ to revisit a three-foot something protagonist who’s waiting for ‘the age of Arzee’. Alas, trouble lies ahead.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Video
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Oath Keepers, neo-Nazi tattoos, and more: This video decodes symbols spotted at the US Capitol siege
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Watch: Recap of Kamala Harris’s journey from being a presidential candidate to the US VP
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Caught on camera: ‘New Yorker’ journalist followed Trump’s supporters as they stormed the US Capitol
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‘You can’t enforce non-law’: Trader Joe’s manager rejects entry to spirited anti-mask protestors
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‘Teddy bear mama’: This woman from Hungary has collected over 20,000 teddy bears
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If you love Indian graphic novels, don’t forget the one that came at the beginning
Weird people with weirder obsessions made for the weirdest cocktail of stories.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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The first autobiographical novel by an Indian woman writing in English was both beautiful and profound
Krupabai Satthianadhan’s ‘Saguna’, which appeared in 1887, was largely autobiographical.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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What English mathematicians thought of the ‘Hindoo calculator’
Revisiting ‘The Indian Clerk’, David Leavitt’s bionovel of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Reel
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‘Gandii Baat’ trailer: AltBalaji erotic thriller series is now into season six
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‘The Legend of Hanuman’ trailer: Animated series features the voice of Sharad Kelkar
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‘Mission Frontline’ trailer: Rana Daggubati anchors a tribute to the Border Security Force
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How Netflix series ‘Bridgerton’ adapted the period costume drama for the digital age
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Last chance to watch: Documentaries and animated films about women and nature
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Why India's shape-shifting folk stories need to be read all over again
AK Ramanujan’s ‘Folktakes from India’ could be the starting point for reading Indian fiction in 2016.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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The Indian diaspora fiction that you really should be reading
Nina McConigley’s ‘Cowboys and East Indians’ captures immigrants’ experiences sensitively but without literary angst.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Why Mahesh Dattani will start afresh and not fade away
The playwright’s ‘Me and My Plays’ is his own definitive statement in more ways than one.
Oindrila Mukherjee
The Field
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Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Unbeaten Baroda reach knockouts, defending champs Karnataka remain in hunt
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ISL: Goalkeeper Debjit Majumder stars as ten-man East Bengal hold Chennaiyin to goalless draw
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India vs England: Hosts to name squad for first two Tests on Tuesday, Virat Kohli set to return
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Watch: Mohammed Siraj leads young but gutsy Indian bowling attack with five-for in Gabba Test
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La Liga giants Sevilla FC sign an agreement with Indian football club Bengaluru United