Modern Classics
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Writer Neel Mukherjee reflects on Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Glass Palace’ as a new edition is released
An excerpt from the new Foreword to ‘The Glass Palace’, published by Borough Press.
Neel Mukherjee
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Partition’s ghosts: Amrita Pritam’s ‘Pinjar’ is a moving tale of revenge and resilience
The Punjabi novella yielded a movie version by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, starring Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpayee.
Anu Kumar
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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
Trending
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‘Panchayat’ Season 3 review: We’re back in Phulera but we’re not sure why
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The personal toll of political vitriol: A decade under Modi has torn apart families, friendships
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Fiction: Gobind joins the Indian Navy to uplift his life and change his family’s fortunes forever
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In Bangladesh, climate disasters are forcing girls into underage marriages
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How Rukmini Devi Arundale modernised the Kalakshetra sari and made ‘Ahimsa silk’ fashionable
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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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‘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
Video
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Watch: How the crew and passengers were evacuated from a plane after bomb scare in Delhi
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Video: How should India tackle its unemployment crisis?
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Watch: ‘The Garfield Movie’ screened specially for cats and their owners in Dubai cinema hall
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Cyclone Remal: Scenes of damage as heavy rain and storms batter parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal
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Watch: When the ‘All We Imagine As Light’ team danced on the red carpet before the Cannes screening
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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