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Who is afraid of Gauri Lankesh?Subscriber Only
September 10, 2017 00:00 IST
Journalist. Activist. Daughter stepping into father’s giant shoes. For Gauri Lankesh, who was killed in Bengaluru on Sep 5, these roles blended seamlessly. Yet, to many, these were lines she dangerously breached. Indian Express speaks to her friends and family to tell her story.
Thu, Jul 05, 2018
Gauri Lankesh murder: Her death meant no edition this week, spirits low, but fight not overSubscriber Only
September 08, 2017 05:21 IST
Gauri Lankesh Patrike was formed in 2005 after Gauri and her brother, Indrajit, parted ways over the future of Lankesh Patrike, the tabloid they inherited from their father, after his death in 2000.
Fri, Sep 08, 2017
Gauri Lankesh murder: ‘Murder of democracy, climate of hate, intolerance complicit,’ says civil societySubscriber Only
September 06, 2017 01:46 IST
Gauri Lankesh murder: Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag said the murder of the anti-establishment journalist was a clear message “to shut up”.
Wed, Sep 06, 2017
An honour killingSubscriber Only
September 06, 2017 00:29 IST
What happens when a community turns against the writer who speaks for and about them?
Wed, Sep 06, 2017
WellspringSubscriber Only
August 27, 2017 08:57 IST
Does the well have a future in Bengaluru, a city faced with an acute water crisis? We dig for answers at parks, apartment complexes and old homes.
Sun, Aug 27, 2017
Ant to elephant, Andhra to New York, writer maps casteSubscriber Only
August 14, 2017 03:24 IST
Sujatha Gidla, of ‘untouchable’ Mala caste, tells her story and that of uncle and PWG co-founder to global acclaim.
Mon, Aug 14, 2017
A day in the life of a tank: The last standSubscriber Only
August 06, 2017 02:30 IST
Narayan Burli, an employee of the Defence Accounts Department, seconds the proposal to park the tank in faraway JNU in Delhi, launching into a short speech about how patriotic fervour has to be created in India where, unlike in Europe, “the nation is more important than the individual”.
Sun, Aug 06, 2017
‘When ultra-nationalism is on the rise, it divides citizens into those whom the state should be proud of, and everyone else’
August 06, 2017 00:00 IST
Kamila Shamsie reimagines Antigone in her new novel, which is already on the Man Booker longlist. The Pakistani writer on researching Islamic State, the right lessons from history and watching Jhulan Goswami play.
Sun, Aug 06, 2017
As Elon Musk seeks to reinvent travel, Indian team in the raceSubscriber Only
August 04, 2017 03:43 IST
Hyperloop is an idea floated by Musk in 2012.
Fri, Aug 04, 2017
Maid and unmade in India: Tripti Lahiri on her book on domestic workers in India
July 30, 2017 00:05 IST
Tripti Lahiri on what doesn’t surprise her about the class war in Noida and her book on domestic workers in India.
Mon, Jul 31, 2017
Living to Tell the Tale
July 15, 2017 01:18 IST
The horrors of domestic abuse and a writer’s determination to overcome it
Sat, Jul 15, 2017
Mission Impossible: A village in Kolar, Karnataka, stricken by drought for years, waits for rainSubscriber Only
July 09, 2017 02:00 IST
Once, Kolar was known for a network of lakes and a bountiful, if seasonal, river. The Palar originates in Nandi Hills in Kolar and flows through Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. It is now a memory in the district, its bed indistinguishable from the foliage all around.
Sun, Jul 09, 2017
Ruskin Bond shows once more the quiet assertion of a solitary man in his autobiography
July 01, 2017 02:00 IST
Lone Fox Dancing is a meditative account of his life, lit up by passages of splendid nature writing and warmed by memories of people, both big and small.
Sat, Jul 01, 2017
Paper Backers: When You Have to Shoot
June 03, 2017 06:36 IST
The novel follows one among them, Karan, through his execution of 35 “encounters”, till the system flips a switch and turns on him.
Sat, Jun 03, 2017
Learn to Walk Alone
May 20, 2017 00:36 IST
A boy waits for his father to die in Anees Salim’s funny, moving new novel.
Sat, May 20, 2017
A King Among the Ruins
April 30, 2017 00:00 IST
In I Allan Sealy’s latest work, Akbar seeks a more corporeal afterlife — an iPod would be nice to have.
Sun, Apr 30, 2017
‘To be a human being is often to feel foreign’
April 02, 2017 00:00 IST
Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid on his new novel, why we are all migrants and why he might write a children’s book.
Sun, Apr 02, 2017
‘We are still living in the ongoing aftermath of 9/11’
March 19, 2017 00:02 IST
Sikh-American activist and filmmaker Valarie Kaur on the spike in hate crimes in the US and why they are inextricably linked to state violence.
Sun, Mar 19, 2017
The project of growth and its fair distribution is in danger: Pankaj Mishra on his new book and understanding the new age of anxiety
January 28, 2017 00:00 IST
To make sense of the toxic anger around us, Mishra asks us to look at the “advent of a commercial-industrial civilisation in the West in the 19th century”; and the droves of “alienated young men of promise” it left in its wake.
Sat, Jan 28, 2017
To thine own selves be true
December 17, 2016 01:32 IST
“His is the story of a genuinely many-voiced man. If it has a moral it is that each man must be true to his selves, plural.”
Sat, Dec 17, 2016
The Last Stand
November 19, 2016 00:29 IST
An extraordinary debut novel about the Sri Lankan war offers redemption by its attention to the ordinary and the mundane.
Sat, Nov 19, 2016
Living HistorySubscriber Only
November 10, 2016 00:12 IST
During the run-up to the US elections, we had asked authors and artists about their opinion of the two Presidential candidates. Here’s what they had had to say:
Thu, Nov 10, 2016
‘The middle class cannot buy its way out of dirty air’
November 08, 2016 00:00 IST
Pallavi Aiyar’s book Choked is an account of living in some of the most polluted Asian cities. The writer on the Delhi smog and what we can learn from China.
Wed, Nov 09, 2016
With ‘Pink’ and Chetan Bhagat’s new book, feminism is in danger of becoming cute and cooptedSubscriber Only
November 01, 2016 00:02 IST
Both Pink and One Indian Girl are examples of how powerful male celebrities seem to be pushing the limits of what society concedes as women’s freedom.
Tue, Nov 01, 2016
Taslima Nasrin: Stranger in a Strange Land
October 30, 2016 00:06 IST
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin hasn’t visited her country in 22 years. But what good is a homecoming when there is nothing to return to?
Sun, Oct 30, 2016Journalism of Courage
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