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Dilemmas of Indian literary criticism

TRADITIONAL Indian poetics is in a crisis today. Its categories are proving clearly insufficient to explain several of the modern genres, forms and mo
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Cinema

The ‘unknown’ factor

Internationally acclaimed film director and eminent Bengali poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta in an exclusive conversation with Frontline, talks of his film Anw
Heritage

Ajanta's treasures

Heritage

Shooting in the dark

The challenge of photographing the paintings at Ajanta.
D. KRISHNAN
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Interview

Celebrating diversity

Yaadhum, a documentary tracing the roots of Tamil Muslims, evocatively portrays a syncretic tradition that allowed inclusiveness and peaceful coexiste
R. Ilangovan
Buddhist wonders

Monumental effort

THE painted ceilings of the Buddhist caves at Ajanta have not drawn as much international attention as the murals. A reason could be that the painting
Sri Lanka

Surveillance and survival

In post-war Sri Lanka, Sinhala cinema is all about triumphal cultural nationalism. What options does a Tamil film-maker have, faced with the twin thre
SIVAMOHAN SUMATHY

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IT is a virtual tour of the Ajanta caves that Professor S. Swaminathan takes one through in his 60-minute lecture at the Madras Christian College, Tam
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Inside, outside

LESLIE STEPHEN’S famous statement that no one has ever written a dull autobiography is perhaps an exaggeration as all of us have left at least a few a
HYDERABAD, 17/01/2012: Writers Semeen Ali, Anindita Sengupta, Angshuman Kar, Mandakranta Sen and Amrita Nair at the poetry session in the Hyderabad Literary Festival at Taramati Baradari, Hyderabad on January 17, 2012.
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No end to hope

DOES poetry make anything happen? W.H. Auden had once answered: no. And added: it is a way of happening, a mouth: today he would have qualified his st

The poets and the feminist

January 4, 2014, marks 47 years since Atiya Fyzee Rahamin's death and her bequest to the Karachi municipal corporation, and 137 years since her birth;
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