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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: Muzaffar Alam's 'The Mughals and the Sufis' explores the Sufi influence in Mughal rule

Raziuddin Aquil

The author explores the significance of critical relationships between the powerful Mughal court culture and various strands of Islamic mysticism.

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Book Review: 'Grief Growth Grace' by Neena Verma delves deep into coping with grief

The book illumines the reader’s mind, throwing light on dark, deep crevices, often hidden from the world, but not necessarily without need for attenti

Book Review: Irwin Allan Sealy's 'Asoca: A Sutra' portrays Emperor Ashoka as a doubting Buddhist

Shonaleeka Kaul

The writer paints a portrait of Emperor Ashoka as a man who first questions and even resists the creed he eventually embraces.

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Book Review: 'Hampi' by Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat and Vasundhara Kavali-Filliozat is more than a coffee-table book on the Vijayanagar Empire

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

At first glance the book may seem like a coffee-table book because of its lavish photographs, but the Filliozats’ text is valuable as it explores poli

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Interview: Saikat Majumdar

The sensory filters of politics: In conversation with Saikat Majumdar

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Interview with the novelist and literary critic Saikat Majumdar.

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Bangladesh at 50: History of three nations intertwined in lessons from liberation

Sachidananda Mohanty

Even as India congratulates Bangladesh on the 50th anniversary of its liberation, it must reflect on the lessons learned from the events that led to t

Book Review: Rasheed Kidwai's 'The House of Scindias' is a tale of a dynasty well told

The book throws light on the power dynamics and pomp displayed by one of the respected dynasties of Indian politics.

Book Review: Thol. Thirumavalavan's 'Mathamum Mathamaatramum' puts caste identity and conversion in the spotlight

The book portrays caste atrocities and police brutalities as reasons for religious conversion and rejects the argument that the lure of money was the

BOOKS / CONTROVERSY

Fate of a book on Indian democracy

The peculiar case of a book on Indian democracy that almost got pushed out of the Indian market but has managed to make a comeback.

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Thi. Janakiraman: A classical radical

Abhirami Girija Sriram

Tamil writer Thi. Janakiraman (1921-1982) was a modernist whose fiction explored the man-woman relationship and its tangles in a changing world. For

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‘Deve Gowda’s democratic engagement was deep’

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Interview with the author and political commentator Sugata Srinivasaraju.

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Book Review: 'Bangalore's Lalbagh' by Suresh Jayaram pays homage to the Garden City

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

The story of Lalbagh is intertwined with the story of Bengaluru, and the book makes this connect wonderfully.

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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.