Modern Classics
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Grave pleasures: Looking back on desire, death and the 20 years between Arundhati Roy’s novels
Are the twins of ‘The God of Small Things’ finally fused in the androgynous Anjum of ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’?
Brinda Bose
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Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’: A bleakly beautiful journey across a devastated American wasteland
The last in a three-part series about the changing concerns of the road novel.
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘Mara and Dann’: Doris Lessing’s futuristic novel embodies a journey away from our dismal world
The second in a series on novels with road trips at the heart of their narratives.
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Naomi Klein: In Modi government’s clampdown on critics and climate activists, Big Tech is an enabler
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Watch: Trials for new three-tier train coaches show one speeding past at 180 kilometers an hour
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Can god be disproved using the laws of physics? An expert explains how it depends on perspective
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Will you marry her? CJI asks man accused of raping minor, grants protection from arrest
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Watch: Comedian from Pakistan presents tutorial on how to speak English like Shashi Tharoor
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‘On The Road’: Jack Kerouac’s madcap novel about wild people in a car gave a voice to a generation
The first in a series on novels with road trips at the heart of their narratives.
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Will Arundhati Roy's new novel change the course of Indian writing in English again?
'The God of Small Things' sparked a whole new literature. What will 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' bring?
Ulka Anjaria
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‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ is 50, but ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is Marquez’s greatest
The bleakness of the more iconic novel is dispelled by the light and faith of love in the other one.
Aruni Kashyap
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Watch: Digital artist Mike Winkelmann’s 10-second video clip sells for $6.6 million
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Watch: First truck carrying Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives in US hub ahead of distribution
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Watch: Have you ever heard a tiger sing? This one in Russia is distinctly melodious
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‘I was abused and beaten up’: Activist Nodeep Kaur recounts her arrest, time in prison
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Young man solves Rubik’s Cube in 17 seconds without looking at it, Sachin Tendulkar makes video