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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary genius
On Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 184th birth anniversary, a celebration of the exemplary novelist who gave us our national song Vande Mataram.
Takshi Mehta
Pride Month
Paradox within a paradox: ‘Trans Kashmir’ captures the precarious lives of the transgender community in the Valley
Trans Kashmir is a testament to the power of documentary film-making.
Ummul Baneen Hyder
Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Concluding day
Of elusive answers
Himali Kothari contemplates the battering the arts has taken in our conflict-ridden times as she attends the grand finale of the Graz theatre festival
Himali Kothari
Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Day Five
Reimagining performance spaces
At the theatre festival in Graz, a cargo cycle moved around the town like a mobile library of plays besides the three performance venues, enabling a f
Himali Kothari
Film Review
Movie Review: ‘Puzhu’ dissects the insidious worm of caste
Puzhu is the most recent in a series of Malayalam films that have explored and elaborated on the ways in which caste hatred and violence works in Kera
C.S. Venkiteswaran
International Booker Prize 2022
Will the International Booker Prize win for ‘Tomb of Sand’ change much for Indian language writers?
The International Booker Prize for Tomb of Sand, Daisy Rockwell’s English translation of Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree’s Ret-Samadhi, is likely to hav
Harish Trivedi
International Museum Day
How did the Indian Museum in Kolkata commemorate International Museum Day?
The Indian Museum takes visitors on a journey through history with its rare public exhibition of never-before-displayed artefacts.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
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How are you veg?: A Telugu short story in translation
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Graz theatre festival: Words and their limits
On the third day of the Graz theatre festival, Himali Kothari finds out how Instagram and Twitter are shaping the structure of performances.
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Partition literature: Hope for a different tomorrow
Partition literature helps us make sense of one of the most traumatising events in the country’s history so that we don’t repeat a similar catastrophe
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