History Of Literature
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Photos from ‘Schippeitaro’, a Japanese fairy tale about sinister dancing cats and a heroic dog
Superstitious Japanese believed that if cats lived too long, they would turn into monsters.
Yasuyo Ohtsuka
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What colonial writing about Indian birds reveals about the British Raj
The wealth of British writing about birds doesn’t just tell us about the avian creatures but also about how they lived and interacted in India.
Jamil Urfi
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Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement
It operated in a doctrinal triangle that proved to be both a boon and a bane.
Syed Nomanul Haq
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A trio of wolves, a lunging crocodile and other winners at the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards
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From ‘self-rule’ call to setting the narrative, how ITLF has become new Kuki-Zo voice in Manipur
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No one remembers Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist of Victorian Britain
RK Narayan loved her. Her wild imagination would make any pulp-fiction writer blush.
Anu Kumar
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Shakespeare in India: How Indians saw and read the Bard a hundred years back
Francis Younghusband’s essay says 'Othello', 'The Merchant of Venice', and 'Romeo and Juliet' were the Bard's most-liked plays in the early 20th century.
Hedley Sutton & Karen Waddell
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Batwara vs Azaadi: How Indian and Pakistani writers viewed the Partition
The literary view was quite different from the two sides of the border formed in 1947.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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