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WHY RENU’S ‘MAILA AANCHAL’ REMAINS RELEVANT IN COVID TIMES

Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’, in his maiden novel, highlights misperceptions and misplaced priorities of both socio-politically and medically endangered society.

BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS WEEK

Hostility Abdul Basit Hostility is former Pakistan high commissioner to India Abdul Basit’s memoir of his tenure in New Delhi, from 2014 to 2017. It takes us...

RETRACING THALAIVA’S FORAY INTO FILMS

Rajinikanth’s entry into the Tamil film industry marked a clear break from the conventional fair-skinned hero who was a paragon of virtue. His rawness and irreverence made him a hero of the subaltern.

When spookiness gets real in a horror writing workshop

Debutant author Sid Kapdi talks about getting out of his comfort zone for ‘Scare Me If You Can’, finding interesting ways of bringing out the horror element and discusses how challenging it is to scare readers.
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REDESIGNING OUR WORLD TO MEET 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES

How can we rethink the world’s systems to prepare the planet and its people for the future? Let’s find out

BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS WEEK

Redesign the World: A Global Call to Action Sam Pitroda The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was...

Of youthful audacity and Kolkata’s heritage

Set in Kolkata, Sutapa Basu’s The Cursed Inheritance is a mystery novel which tells its readers that the past and the present can never...

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