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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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Why are so many young Indians trading in cryptocurrency, especially in tier-two cities?
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Sugar in Nestlé baby food sold in African countries shows how corporations influence public policy
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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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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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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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Watch: In animated prequel, Baahubali and Bhallaladeva unite to defeat the warlord Raktadeva
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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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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India tour of Bangladesh: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana guide India to victory in third T20I
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Salima Tete to lead Indian women’s team for European leg
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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian women lose to Japan, men to China in quarter-finals