Crime And Fiction
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‘The Tattoo Murder’ injects local aesthetics into a post-World War II Japanese crime novel
The novel is a gripping page-turner of the first order that also wonderfully explores Tokyo, then a city in ruins.
Saptak Choudhury
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For whom the bell tolls: tales of murder and madness on the fictional Gokumon Island
The novel’s real strength lies in its beautiful, lyrical, character-driven approach, with sketches and dialogues that propel the narrative.
Saptak Choudhury
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Crime fiction: Three novels where we don’t see the solutions because of our blind spots
The first in a new series on crime fiction: A deep dive into the plots of ‘The Footprints on the Ceiling’, ‘Rim of the Pit’, and ‘Invisible Green’.
Saptak Choudhury
Trending
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
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Not all Japanese crime fiction is superb, as Seishi Yokomizo’s ‘The Village of Eight Graves’ shows
The sixth and final in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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What is the shin honkaku sub-genre of mystery? How did Japanese writer Soji Shimada make it popular?
The fifth in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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How a Japanese island mystery novel replicated the Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes brand of mystery
The fourth in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
Video
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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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How Keikichi Ōsaka blended crime with philosophical meditations on the puzzling nature of existence
The third in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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‘The Red Locked Room’: How Tetsuya Ayukawa unlocks locked room mysteries
The second in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
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Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?
The first in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
Saptak Choudhury
The Reel
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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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