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Literature

Vibrant and heterogeneous

RASHMI DORAISWAMY

The Soviet literary scape had a variety of literature from the officially feted to the ...

Art & architecture

Celebration or reflection?

ROMI KHOSLA

Commemorating the October Revolution raises the problem of understanding the relationship ...

Reminiscences

The world through a village

P. SAINATH

Melanmai Ponnusamy, one of the most authentic literary voices of the countryside, passed ...

Documentary

Remembering Begum Akhtar

PARTHA CHATTERJEE

Nirmal Chander’s documentary focusses on the essentials of Begum Akhtar’s music and her ...

Jnanpith

Writing without a full stop

ZIYA US SALAM

The nonagenarian Hindi writer Krishna Sobti has been awarded the 53rd Jnanpith Award.

Translation

Epiphany (Kraurya)

ALAMELU, the only child of Professor Thiruchendur Shrinivasa Raghavacharya and his wife, ...

Heritage

Baolis to the rescue

BETWEEN the Battle of Talikota (1565) and the Mughal invasions of the Deccan in the late ...

Lekh Tandon

Star in the shadows

ZIYA US SALAM

Lekh Tandon (1929-2017) helmed several memorable Hindi films but remained an unsung hero ...

I.V. Sasi

Trendsetting titan

C.S. VENKITESWARAN

I.V. Sasi (1948-2017), a giant among Malayalam film-makers, explored and dramatised the ...

Nobel Prize: Literature

More English than the English

A.J. THOMAS

Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a non-native speaker of ...

Obituary

Everyman’s director

ZIYA US SALAM

Kundan Shah (1947-2017) stole hearts with his meaningful craft that offered a peek into ...

Translation

New Custom (Naya Kaayada)

THE man’s nostrils quivered, blasted by stench. As soon as he alighted from the bus, his ...

Translation

Infidel (Kafir, 1938)

GET away from here, you with your scary Mahadev face! Someone could get a fever just by ...

Architecture

Building India

DIVYA TRIVEDI

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru took a keen interest in fostering young talent in ...

Demolishing a legacy

IN April this year, the iconic Hall of Nations, said to be the first pillarless building ...

Interview

‘It’s about the unmaking of modern India’

ZIYA US SALAM

Interview with Nayantara Sahgal.

India-Pakistan

Feuding twins

A.G. NOORANI

Two poems that describe the ills that India and Pakistan share—the rise of religious ...

Archaeology

Vadnagar’s wall of fame

Vadnagar is a fortified town with a population of about 25,000 people in Mehsana district ...

Excerpt

Excerpt from Neermai by Na. Muthuswamy, and translated by David Shulman and S ...

Interview

'There is no language in the world which is pristine and pure'

A. S. Panneerselvan

Interview with Professor David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at The ...

Interview

‘Identity is an overused word’

THE longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2017 was announced on July 27, with ...

Art history

The Art of India—a coffee-table book from Frontline

CHITRASUTRA, the ancient Indian treatise on painting, began in the oral tradition before ...

Celebrating Shakespeare

The poet with a muse of fire

ASIM KUMAR MUKHERJEE

Shakespeare is celebrated for his plays and sonnets, but his life is no less fascinating.

The Red Fort

Many-splendoured citadel

ON the eastern edge of Delhi along the banks of the Yamuna river, which has shifted its ...

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