Classics Revisited
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Could Bram Stoker’s Dracula be a personification of sleep disorders?
The vampire’s victims suffered from various types of sleep disorders – sleepwalking, hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and more.
Alice Vernon, The Conversation
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Four times Shakespeare has inspired stories about robots and Artificial Intelligence
Science fiction has proposed that the Bard of Avon was not a human but a klingon.
Sarah Annes Brown, The Conversation
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Three things historical literature can teach us about the climate crisis
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’, among others, tell us about our historical view of nature.
David Higgins, The Conversation & Tess Somervell, The Conversation
Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘The Sheik’: 100 years on, the desert romance is a gift that keeps on giving to genre novelists
Panned as rubbish when it was published in 1919, ‘The Sheik’ spawned a legendary movie and hundreds of desert romances, despite its questionable central theme.
Ellen Turner, The Conversation
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William Faulkner wrote this novel after the markets crash of 1929. No wonder it talks of modern ills
‘As I Lay Dying’ remains one of the most perplexing novels of the modernist canon.
Sarah Gleeson-White, The Conversation
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Watch: Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings come to life in film on the great artist
Actors transform themselves into the painter’s works in the animated movie ‘Loving Vincent’.
Scroll Staff
Video
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Watch: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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The tale of the self-renewing virgin shows how little seems to have changed since the Mahabharata
Intricate issues of kinship, legitimacy, caste and gender justice that appear in the epic continue to rock us today.
Mrinal Pande
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How to write a children’s classic: the Gruffalo formula
Julia Donaldson's tale of brains and brawn may only be 16 years old, but like Harry Potter it has joined the ranks of the all-time greats.
Matthew Creasy, The Conversation
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A colourful web series revives the magic of classic Hindi nursery rhymes
‘Ghotu Motu Ki Toli’ introduces children growing on ‘Johnny, Johnny’ to the delights of ‘Upar chanda gol gol’.
Mayank Jain
The Reel
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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic