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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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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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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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted