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‘I am shaken, but not crushed’

The India of his boyhood dream is under fearsome assault, but Rajmohan Gandhi isn’t giving up hope.

Writing Partition: A violent birth

Literature documented the lasting psychological effects of Partition like no official record can.

Scripting a cultural continuum

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What does the Sahitya Akademi mean to ordinary Indians, readers, and writers today?

Speaking in tongues

The bumpy map of English translations is expanding.

India at 75 - Fiction

Beacons that light up the path to understanding post-Independence Indian literature.

India at 75 - Non-fiction

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Pivotal books that shaped the course of India’s cultural and intellectual life.

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Book Review: Laura T. Murphy's ‘Azad Nagar: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt’ asks questions on the price of freedom

Vasundhara Sirnate

An interesting case study on the Kol people of Azad Nagar who bought their way out of slavery, this book talks of how revolutions can become fractured

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Book Review: B.N. Goswamy’s collection of essays revels in soulful conversations on art

B.N. Goswamy’s latest book, a collection of 125 essays selected from his fortnightly column “Art and Soul” in The Tribune, takes one on a voyage of di

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Book Review: ‘Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics’ maps the Gujarat model of communalism

This book of essays analyses the intersections between caste, class, politics and economy that turned Gujarat into a Hindutva laboratory and also trac

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Book Review: Shreya Sen-Handley's memoir 'Handle With Care: Travels With My Family' celebrates the simple pleasures of life

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

One of the most interesting aspects of the book is how the author’s love of literature often dictates, either consciously or subconsciously, her choic

Interview: Sukrita Paul

Sukrita Paul: ‘Krishna Sobti carved out space for women’

Interview with writer-poet Sukrita Paul.

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Book Review: Robert Buderi's 'Where Futures Converge' chronicles the transformative Kendall Square

Vijaysree Venkatraman

Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is to life sciences what Hollywood is to movies. A new book traces the story of its transformation from a

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Book Review: 'Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?' by G.N. Saibaba exhibits a fearless mind

A new collection of letters and poems by G.N. Saibaba brings us the undefeated voice of the jailed professor.

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Book Review: Uma Das Gupta's 'A History of Sriniketan' documents Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of beauty

A new book looks at the history of Sriniketan, Rabindranath Tagore’s institute for rural reconstruction in Birbhum.

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Kashmir conundrum: In conversation with Iqbal Chand Malhotra

Interview with Iqbal Chand Malhotra, whose latest book on “proxy wars” in Kashmir reviews past policies and their consequences for the country now.

History of RAW - India’s external intelligence agency

Sachidananda Mohanty

A path-breaking history of India’s covert operations by the fabled Research and Analysis Wing, based on extensive interviews with both serving and for

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Book Review: Martyn Rix's 'Indian Botanical Art' is a comprehensive illustrated history of the subject

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Exquisitely illustrated, this comprehensive book on the tradition of botanical art in India will delight art lovers and enthusiasts of botany and Indi

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Book Review: 'Avvai' by Inquilab reimagines the Tamil poet

H.S. Shivaprakash

A deeply political play which establishes Avvai as a vibrant, passionate poet of the Sangam period, almost an antithesis of the holier-than-thou image

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Behemoth studios in the era of pan-Indian films

Yash Raj Films used to set trends, not follow them. Can it turn the tide?

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Captured in time

As independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.