Bottom Shelf
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The spirits in Manoj Das’s near-forgotten stories makes you wonder who the real ghosts are
The stories in ‘Farewell to a Ghost’ comprise a lament for the past.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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‘Rajmohan’s Wife’: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s English novel was a true potboiler
Continuing our series on near-forgotten books from the past that are worth reading in the 21st Century.
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories provide a taste of what made his novels so powerful in their times
These works grapple with social issues, injustice and oppression, pitting rich against poor, upper castes against lower, men against women.
Oindrila Mukherjee
Trending
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Delhi HC denies bail to Manish Sisodia in liquor policy case, says allegations are ‘very serious’
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Readers’ comments: Freedom to choose religion is constitutional, but does not include missionaries
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Pro-BJP accounts lead social media attacks on CJI Chandrachud, researchers show
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Reading list for young readers: The 12 books shortlisted for the 2023 Neev Book Awards
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Protesting wrestlers say they will immerse medals in Ganga today, begin hunger strike
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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
Video
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Video: Watch this breakdancer’s amazing performance in sari and high heels
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Watch: Slain singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s fans hold candlelight march on his first death anniversary
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Watch: Dancers continue unfazed as climate activists barge into Swedish dance show to disrupt it
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From discarded tents to oxygen tanks: Alarming video reveals garbage pile up at Mt Everest campsite
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Watch: Post-midnight celebrations by CSK fans across India as team wins fifth IPL title
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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
The Reel
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‘Chitrakut’ review: A wandering tour of complicated relationships
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Start the week with a film: The documentary ‘Tina’ is a tribute to an irrepressible spirit
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‘Citadel’ review: Secrets, lies and banality
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‘City of Dreams’ season 3 review: Political drama is running out of ways to deliver the shocks
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‘Jogira Sara Ra Ra’ review: Funny in bits and bobs
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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 Field
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Protesting wrestlers say they will immerse medals in Ganga today, begin hunger strike
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Watch: Winning moments as Chennai Super Kings clinch IPL 2023 title to become five-time champs
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Watch, French Open 2023: Carlos Alcaraz plays superb around-the-net shot in first-round win
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IPL 2023: After CSK’s fifth title, reactions of MS Dhoni, Stephen Fleming, Ambati Rayudu and more
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IPL 2023, list of award winners: Shubman Gill gets MVP, Orange Cap; Mohammed Shami wins Purple Cap