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Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman to be made into a Netflix series
July 2, 2019 12:40 IST
In The Sandman, Neil Gaiman presents a scenario where places and people have been affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he tries to make amends for the many human mistakes committed by him.
A recent book One Heart. Two Worlds: The Story of the Jews of Kochi presents the stories of a community that arrived on Kerala shores in 1000 CE
July 2, 2019 08:10 IST
Chronicled by scholar and historian KS Mathew and creative director and writer Yamini Nair, the anecdotes come together through “handwritten song diaries, memoirs, kosher recipes, Hebrew plays and synagogue rituals”.
Author Priya Saklani hopes to inspire others by sharing her experience of childhood abuse
June 30, 2019 13:23 IST
A firm believer that the only way forward is by addressing the past and to attempt to heal oneself, Saklani feels that otherwise the trauma subconsciously begins to affect the person, making it difficult to lead a “normal” life.
The teachings of educator Gijubhai Badheka are being celebrated in a book
June 30, 2019 07:59 IST
More than 150 years ago, Gijubhai Badheka wrote more than 200 books in his 15-year-long career as an educationist.
Life Lines
June 29, 2019 00:33 IST
A fairly ordinary prose about a not-so-ordinary life, it feeds off an assortment of experiences, loiters off into poetic tangents and drops epiphanies as truth bombs.
Across the Black Waters
June 29, 2019 00:28 IST
Set in the Andaman Islands in the decade prior to India’s freedom in 1947, it is the story of bleak and blighted lives caught in the vortex of history. It is also the story of wanton and gratuitous wartime cruelties.
No Smooth Sailing
June 29, 2019 00:26 IST
The journey of a Naga man, from violent displacement from his land to the stance of forgiveness, is a political fable for our times
Tales of Future Past
June 29, 2019 00:07 IST
Two ambitious, engaging anthologies that navigate the best that Indian science fiction has to offer
Anupam Kher’s autobiography, Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly, to be released in August
June 28, 2019 16:42 IST
The book promises to be an engaging and riveting read where the author will shed light on his life, hid intriguing and compelling journey so far along with anecdotes and behind-the-scene details.
Brenda Maddox, biographer who revealed Joyce’s muse
June 28, 2019 12:24 IST
Brenda Maddox an overlooked DNA researcher, died June 16 at her home in London. She was 87.
Gulshan Grover’s biography ‘Bad Man’ to release soon
June 28, 2019 15:40 IST
Gulshan Grover. Grover, who has completed 30 years in Bollywood, has been the face of the antagonist and is also widely known as the 'Bad man'. It is not incidental then that an upcoming biography on the actor shares this title.
Anna Burns’ Milkman wins the Orwell Prize for political fiction
June 26, 2019 14:02 IST
Anna Burns’ Milkman, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2018, has won the prize for political fiction, while Patrick Radden Keefe has won the prize for political writing for Say Nothing.
On the centennial of Iris Murdoch’s birth, remembering a 20th-century giant
June 26, 2019 10:54 IST
Iris Murdoch was a staunch feminist, and a pioneer in putting complex and believable gay and lesbian characters into novels. But she also wrote six novels from the point of view of male characters (these are, in fact, some of her very best) and none from a woman’s first-person perspective.
KS Komireddi’s book on brief history of India raises important questions even if it doesn’t address them
June 23, 2019 08:32 IST
In its first part, Malevolent Republic asks a difficult question? Can dynastism and authoritarianism be traced to the times when the country was at its democratic best? Komireddi does not absolve India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru in this respect.
Just Right For Kids: Light in the Dark
June 23, 2019 08:01 IST
Books, though, have done their bit to fill that void and the memoir by the host of the American television show, The Daily Show, had been a good addition to the genre.
Arundhathi Subramaniam’s new volume of poetry is unpredictable and utterly compelling
June 23, 2019 08:39 IST
The language and imagery in Subramaniam’s volume fairly sizzles.
A comprehensive account of the history of Sikkim since 1947, that lays to rest any suggestion of the forcible annexation of the state
June 23, 2019 08:01 IST
Jawaharlal Nehru granted special status to Sikkim in 1947, overriding Vallabhbhai Patel and BN Rau, who equated Sikkim with other members of the Chamber of Princes.
First editions of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography to go under the hammer at Saffronart sale
June 21, 2019 16:40 IST
Printed in 1927, the two volumes of Gandhi's autobiography will come in their original binding of green cloth boards with black lettering on the spine and front panel.
A Home for the Lady
June 21, 2019 00:24 IST
Chinmay Tumbe on migration trends in India and how marriage plays a role in it
Sahitya Akademi award winner Tanuj Solanki on writing, and how Muzaffarnagar changed after 2013 riots
June 18, 2019 09:03 IST
His short story collection Diwali in Muzaffarnagar that won the Sahitya Akedemi award explores what it means to leave a small town as a young adult, and to return home much later.
Planning to binge watch Leila? Here’s a list of Indian dystopian novels you can read
June 17, 2019 17:43 IST
Prayaag Akbar's novel Leila has been recently adapted into a Netflix series, with Huma Qureshi at the helm. In case you are planning to binge watch it, here are some other Indian dystopian novels you can read.
Light of the Firefly
June 15, 2019 11:00 IST
Kaifi Azmi’s writings on love and rebellion continue to bedazzle.
Lest We Forget
June 15, 2019 10:31 IST
A direct account of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the poetry of Nanak Singh.
Not the Same River
June 15, 2019 10:10 IST
Amitav Ghosh’s novel sails into troubled waters. The voyage is action-packed but disappointing.
Renowned Indian-origin writer Ahmed Essop dies
June 13, 2019 14:59 IST
Ahmed Essop, renowned author and educationist of Indian-origin has died in South Africa, a close family friend said. He was 88.
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