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Frontline Bookshelf: Review of two biographies based on B.R. Ambedkar’s life

B.R. Ambedkar was a man of many shades. Nearly 70 years after his death, more facts about the revolutionary leader’s childhood, the experiences that s

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A billboard announcing exam toppers from a coaching centre in Kota. Such rankings add to student anxiety.

What’s killing our students?

Every day, more than 35 students die by suicide in India, but the causes of these deaths are not easy to find.

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“Gestation”. 1989, Acrylic on canvas 175 x 175 cm.

At Rs.51.75 crore, ‘Gestation’ puts S.H. Raza at the highest level of Indian art

Raza’s painting made history in the same year that the Pompidou in Paris celebrated his centenary.

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Anjum Hasan’s History’s Angel uses the expanse of fiction to show how Indian Muslims are pigeonholed.

No getting past the present: Review of ‘History’s Angel’ by Anjum Hasan

Hasan’s novel details how Indian Muslims are being made to feel like outsiders and fugitives.

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A still from The Mirror. “I love that the film is a cat-and-mouse game. They have both transgressed,” says Konkona.

How Konkona Sen Sharma’s ‘The Mirror’ explores class and desire

Her new short film, part of the Netflix anthology Lust Stories 2, hits hard by making honesty an imperative.

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Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in October 1973. Frustrated with the clampdown and surveillance following the Prague Spring in 1968, he left for France with his wife Vera in 1975.

Milan Kundera (1929-2023): Explorer of life, death, and the unbearable lightness in between

To know Kundera, we must turn to his biography, but we must first read his fiction.

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Vishwambhar Nath Mishra stands next to a Siva temple near his home in Varanasi’s Tulsi Ghat area.

‘Gyanvapi mosque has become a target’: Vishwambhar Nath Mishra

A professor and a priest, Vishwambhar Nath Mishra says inclusivity is intrinsic to Banaras.

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An aerial view of the Gyanvapi mosque and Kashi Viswanath temple, a 2021 picture.

Gyanvapi masjid case: Disquiet in Banaras amid impending legal battle

Even as the petitioners in the Shringar Gauri case quarrel among themselves, everyone is waiting for July 6, when the next hearing will take place.

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‘I am interested in how people represent the divine’: Charles Fréger

Interview with the French photographer about his latest photobook Aam Aastha: Indian Devotions, a collection of portraits where people play gods.

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On location during the shooting of the film.

‘Agra’ is an unblinking look at delayed male sexual maturity

Kanu Behl’s Cannes entry insists that we drag out sexual repression from under society’s rug.

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Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006).

In search of the Banaras of Ustad Bismillah Khan

Had he been alive, the shehnai maestro would have turned 107 on March 21.

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