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‘Civil society is like a Socratic gadfly to the state’Subscriber Only
April 24, 2015 00:59 IST
John Hawkes professor Leela Gandhi talks about her new book, the inner life of democracy and what it means to be postcolonial in 2015.
Fri, Apr 24, 2015
Dimapur snapshotsSubscriber Only
March 25, 2015 00:00 IST
Why did a lynch mob feel compelled to take photographs as it killed?
Wed, Mar 25, 2015
The Author as an EssayistSubscriber Only
March 07, 2015 00:25 IST
In Mohsin Hamid the essayist, we find a more inward-looking voice, as if he’s testing some thoughts out as he writes.
Sat, Mar 07, 2015
Srinagar is a place of great melancholy: Kashmiri writer Mirza WaheedSubscriber Only
November 30, 2014 01:00 IST
Kashmiri writer Mirza Waheed on broken people in a broken city, where memory meets fiction and stories write themselves.
Sun, Nov 30, 2014
Book review: The Zone of Interest is about a romance in AuschwitzSubscriber Only
October 24, 2014 00:16 IST
An old-fashioned novel that wavers between satire and sentimentality
Sat, Oct 25, 2014Square Inch of Delhi: About the illusions of the well-readSubscriber Only
August 16, 2014 00:07 IST
A debut novel about the illusions of the well read and comfortably off
Mon, Aug 18, 2014
Natural Rubber: Indian culture as contraceptiveSubscriber Only
July 06, 2014 01:00 IST
Indian culture is the new contraceptive. But condoms have had homegrown ambassadors too.
Sun, Jul 06, 2014Mysore MontageSubscriber Only
May 31, 2014 03:05 IST
Mahesh Rao’s The Smoke is Rising abandons the metropolis for Mysore, a smaller city with a less storied modernity.
Sat, May 31, 2014For Love of the WeirdSubscriber Only
December 07, 2013 05:54 IST
Sheepish werewolves,lonely griffins and mysterious blotches make up this merry collection of curiosities.
Sat, Dec 07, 2013A Prodigious CropSubscriber Only
October 05, 2013 02:13 IST
Jim Craces Booker-shortlisted novel is a timeless tale of crime and retribution and the changes wrought by displacement.
Sat, Oct 05, 2013The Past is an Unhappy CountrySubscriber Only
August 24, 2013 02:49 IST
Book: The Hungry Ghosts Author: Shyam Selvadurai Publisher: Penguin Price: Rs 599 Pages: 384 Amitav Ghosh called Shyam Selvadurais first novel,Funny Boy (1994),a novel of departure. The young narrator,who has left a Sri Lanka collapsing behind him,recalls a paradise that is now sundered,a happy childhood home,an idyllic past. It is a novel seared by that […]
Sat, Aug 24, 2013In the times of social media,a debate on its pros and consSubscriber Only
July 24, 2013 05:24 IST
Whos afraid of social media? As the applause for winners of the sixth Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards died down,this question took centre stage.
Wed, Jul 24, 2013
In the times of social media,a debate on its pros and consSubscriber Only
July 24, 2013 03:18 IST
Anant Goenka,head of New Media at the Express Group,felt that the influence of social media may be overstated.
Mon, Oct 31, 2016The Pleasure is HersSubscriber Only
July 13, 2013 04:46 IST
A sharp collection of erotic stories stumbles on cliches
Sat, Jul 13, 2013Weigh not the bardSubscriber Only
April 06, 2013 00:36 IST
Shakespeare had money on his mind. So did most Elizabethan dramatists
Sat, Apr 06, 2013
John’s John-nessSubscriber Only
March 30, 2013 02:58 IST
A sloppy typist and timeless lyricist revealed through his writings
Sat, Mar 30, 2013Magical mystery tourSubscriber Only
October 15, 2012 03:09 IST
Earlier this month,the Beatles turned 50. A look at their relationship with India
Mon, Oct 15, 2012A Twining of TonguesSubscriber Only
September 22, 2012 02:22 IST
A Hindi translation of Taslima Nasrins poems takes readers beyond the political and into the personal
Sat, Sep 22, 2012The fiction of Salman RushdieSubscriber Only
September 19, 2012 02:32 IST
It is time Midnights Children was read as only a novel
Wed, Sep 19, 2012Escape from ComplexitySubscriber Only
August 11, 2012 02:48 IST
The title of Mishi Sarans new book calls to mind that Urvashi Butalia classic,The Other Side of Silence.
Sat, Aug 11, 2012Writ in waterSubscriber Only
June 19, 2012 03:45 IST
Navigability will be key to a settlement of the Sir Creek dispute
Tue, Jun 19, 2012Land of teak and goldSubscriber Only
June 06, 2012 03:17 IST
Burma of memories and stories is often a fabulous place
Wed, Jun 06, 2012
Sentimentally YoursSubscriber Only
June 02, 2012 01:55 IST
By now,we have all heard Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer give tearful speeches at awards ceremonies
Sat, Jun 02, 2012Our no-showSubscriber Only
May 04, 2012 03:12 IST
As India enters the 100th year of its film history,it must confront its lost reels
Fri, May 04, 2012
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