Literature For Peace
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Pico Iyer’s ‘Autumn Light’ woos you to believe and yet, to let go eventually
Each event, the writer is telling us, must be savoured for what it is, for nothing can bring it back.
John Butler
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‘In the days of war, the sun does not rise, it is always night’: Two poems on what war brings us
One poet was from India and one, from Pakistan, and their poetry is the same.
Zeeshan Sahil & Balraj Komal
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‘Imagine a world where tanks can be libraries’ (as John Lennon might have): Two poems by Nabina Das
‘Nations are not made up of women who cry / nations are made up of men who sound a war cry.’
Nabina Das
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace
How Urdu poetry travelled through the battleground of hope and despair.
Rakhshanda Jalil
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‘Can you tell me the race of the blood-stained clothes?’: Three poems by Hindi poet Kumar Vikal
The poems have been translated from the Hindi by Nirupama Dutt.
Kumar Vikal
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‘How were we done for in this war?’: Three poems by women poets from Sri Lanka ask the same question
Written in Tamil, the poems have been translated by N Kalyan Raman.
Sivaramani, Paamathi & Anar
Video
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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
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War and death: Two poems by WB Yeats and Rudyard Kipling that remind us of the futility
WB Yeats and Rudyard Kipling on the fate of individual soldiers.
WB Yeats & Rudyard Kipling
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‘Why are you fighting this war?’: Satyajit Ray’s famous anti-war song from ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’
‘For whom then are you fighting this war?’
Satyajit Ray
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‘Why did we fight at all? asked the Pandavas’: Three poems mourning war by K Satchidanandan
‘We will weep together / sharing the same impossible dream / of a world without borders.’
K Satchidanandan
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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‘The Last Salute’: Saadat Hasan Manto’s story of a battle in Kashmir asks again why wars are fought
‘As he took aim to shoot and a familiar face appeared on the opposite side, he forgot for a moment why they were fighting, why he had lifted his gun and aimed.’
Saadat Hasan Manto
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‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’: A soldier-poet’s cry against the cruelties of war
Wilfred Owen served and died in World War I at the age of 25. His poems refute the glory of wars and explore their harshness for those who actually fight them.
Wilfred Owen
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‘Words from the Depth of Truth’: Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on war and destruction
Tagore wrote this poem after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
Rabindranath Tagore
The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju picks up win to become joint-leader with two rounds to go
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Hockey: Salima Tete 2.0 – a speedster who is adding confidence and creativity to her improving game