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
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Why the criticism of UU Lalit’s appointment as India’s next chief justice is flawed
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Opinion: The reasons why Pakistan turned out different from India and Bangladesh
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‘Are we the judge or registry?’: Justice DY Chandrachud expresses displeasure over removal of case
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Protest or harassment? Crowd heckles anchor Anjana Om Kashyap in Patna, social media divided
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CWG 2022: Here’s the full list of 61 medals won by India at Birmingham Commonwealth Games
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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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Protest or harassment? Crowd heckles anchor Anjana Om Kashyap in Patna, social media divided
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Watch: Kerala man bathes in pothole with muddy water to highlight condition of streets
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Watch: Car with driver inside swept away by floodwater in Indore, Madhya Pradesh
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Watch: Donald Trump says FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, supporters gather outside
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Watch: Man jumps onto railway tracks to save stray dog as train approaches
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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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‘Mind the Malhotras’ season 2 trailer: Cyrus Sahukar and Mini Mathur are back as a bickering couple
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‘Delhi Crime’ season 2 trailer: Vartika Chaturvedi and her team are back on the crime trail
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‘Thiruchitrambalam’ trailer: Dhanush plays a food delivery worker in Mithran Jawahar’s film
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Start the week with a film: ‘Confidentially Yours’ is a delightful goodbye to cinema
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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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Toronto Masters: Naomi Osaka retires in opener with back pain
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