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Click and bait: Living in the time of viral nationalism

Prayaag Akbar’s Mother India paints a disturbing picture of a tech-driven Hindu rashtra, blurring the lines between reality and AI-driven propaganda.

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‘Federalism should be back to what it was’: Christophe Jaffrelot

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Cartoonist Rachita Taneja. The Bengaluru-based artist was recently honoured with the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award, alongside Hong Kong’s Zunzi.

‘Sanitary Panels would not have been possible without the Internet’: Rachita Taneja

This election season, the webcomic has covered everything from ethics of NOTA to the media’s softball interview questions to Prime Minister Modi.

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A screenshot from Hamraaz’s Instagram page from March 2024. The poem here, titled “Dreams of Fear and Rejoicing”, features in Yes, There Will Be Singing.

‘Every word I write is against fascism’: Hamraaz, the anonymous poet

The activist-poet talks about engaging with burning issues of the day in his poems and using words to protest authoritarianism.

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Meena Kandasamy in Chennai in 2013.

Meena Kandasamy: ‘A poet says what’s on their mind’

The poet, writer, and activist says poetry helps people make sense of what they have lived.

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The novel brings out the condition of women in rural India in a hard-hitting way.

A Rashomon-like social commentary on conservatism and misogyny

Equal parts whodunnit and social drama, Atharva Pandit’s Hurda marks the arrival of a sincere, diligent new voice in Indian English literature.

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Sunshine, or its lack, acts as a metaphor for the suppressed dreams of the protagonist in one of the stories.

That insect-trapped-in-amber feeling

At least six stories in For Now, It Is Night ought to be in literary curricula across India. But the stories speak of Kashmir, so it will not happen.

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The reader sees first hand how the life of an Adivasi person differs at the basic experiential level.

Forest in the heart: Review of ‘I Named My Sister Silence’ by Manoj Rupda

Manoj Rupda’s sharp insights into the ground realities of Adivasi life, coupled with his style and wit, make this an extraordinary novel.

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Vivek Narayanan by Dyuti Mittal

‘While nationalism simplifies, literature complicates’: Vivek Narayanan

The collection ‘After’ offers a hip, hyper-literate, often ironic commentary on Valmiki’s Ramayana.

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Swara Bhaskar: ‘Boycott calls are purely agenda-driven’

The outspoken actor says the narrative around ‘Boycott Bollywood’ is a bit skewed and exaggerated.

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