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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This holiday season, who’s ‘Uninvited’ from Goa?
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When a spiritual guru put the Indian government in a fix with a request for dual citizenship
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How Kerala’s Kozhikode became India’s first UNESCO City of Literature
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‘No data’ and other tactics: How the government is dodging RTI queries on health pacts with Big Tech
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‘Ours is the only Kashmir party under attack’: Waheed Parra on the loneliness of the PDP
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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: Huge audience sings along to ‘Shauq’ with singer Swanand Kirkire in Delhi
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‘You cannot invoke martyrs to ask for votes,’ says TV anchor. Panelist plays PM’s speech in response
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Watch: Fashion show turns Manchester street into runway for models in the rain
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‘Incredibly rare’: Florida park celebrates first-ever recorded birth of white alligator
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Watch: Men try to frighten elephant with slippers, run away when it charges at them
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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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Start the week with a film: ‘Somewhere’ is a sensitive look at an actor’s empty life
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Mining town-set film ‘Whispers of Fire and Water’ is an immersive experience
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In Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’, a solidarity that transcends differences
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In animated film ‘The Siren’, a reminder that ‘democracy and peace are never eternal’
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‘Mast Mein Rehne Ka’ review: A cheerfully meandering comedy