Literary Genres
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How romance fiction is rewriting the rulebook: Five things you didn’t know about love in novels
Contemporary romance fiction is challenging the prevailing wisdom about how books come into being and find their readers.
Beth Driscoll, The Conversation & Kim Wilkins, The Conversation
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‘Afrofuturism’: A professor explains the genre with elements of science fiction and African history
While the term was coined 28 years ago, it can pertain to multiple kinds of work created by Black people across history.
Julian C Chambliss, The Conversation
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Climate fiction: Both utopic and dystopic views of the world are necessary in this literature
Cli-fi by Margaret Atwood and Stanley Robinson, among others, will prove to be a defining genre for our apocalyptic times.
Bernadette McBride, The Conversation
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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‘Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests’: US government report flags human rights abuses in India
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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Indian literature keeps waiting for the literary memoir as a form distinct from the autobiography
Is it fact, fiction, or something in between? The publishing business in India doesn’t seem to have an answer.
Gayathri Prabhu
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Why we should remember Satyajit Ray (also) for the horror stories he wrote
Beyond his cinema and his detective fiction, the auteur-author also made your blood run cold with some of his stories.
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay