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The move follows the duo’s decision to read a statement against “corporations such as the Tatas, and the Tatas in particular”, responding to a joint appeal by 50 activists and civil society members, urging them to not participate in an event sponsored by the company.
A book a day keeps the blues away; Your lockdown reading is here
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Anything but Typical
On World Autism Day, Suhasini Malde talks about her book Innocentism that explores the joys of devoting a life for the betterment of autistic children
‘I wanted to create a non-Western-centric post-apocalyptic world,’ says Sophia Khan
Sophia Khan's book The Flight of the Arconaut, was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Karachi Literature Festival Getz Pharma Fiction Prize.
This old library in a Punjab village is encouraging the youth to read
A 42-year-old library in a small village finds new readers
‘Salinger wanted success as a writer but he didn’t want celebrityhood’
Joana Rakoff on director Phillipe Falardeu’s new film on her book My Salinger Year, working at the literary agency that represented JD Salinger, and how she discovered the reclusive writer
A Home for Hope: Subhadra Sen Gupta’s new book makes the Constitution accessible to children
It took Sen Gupta about nine months to finish the manuscript. By the time the book came out, people had taken to the streets to uphold the democratic ethos of the Constitution. In hindsight, Sen Gupta wishes she had done a segment on citizenship. Perhaps, that will be grist for another book.
The Red Carpet
Conversations around India’s hotel industry dominated the book launch of From Oberoi to Oyo.
John Stratton Hawley on his new book and how the city’s history is steeped in a vision of ‘Hinduism
Hawley, 78, is still hopeful that the faith that steered the creation of Vrindavan, will triumph over blatant commercialisation of religion. Excerpts from an interview.
Life Everlasting
A translation of Tagore’s memoir seeks to take it to a global audience
The Rest is Not Noise
An unusual piece of writing on music, TM Krishna’s new book captures the issues of caste and purity that underlie the tradition of making and playing the mrdangam
For a Better Life
Vivek Atray’s Finding Success Within analyses how success is not solely determined by material gains.
Poet Akhil Katyal on wearing his politics on his sleeves and his new collection of poems
Over the last couple of years, Katyal, along with a bunch of contemporaries, that now include vernacular poets such as Hussain Haidry and Aamir Aziz, have responded to the ruptures in India’s community life with poetry on social media.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s memoir of the reform years presents a complicated picture
It is too easy to dismiss reformers like Montek as elitist. They may make errors of judgment, but they often had more faith in Indians than many of those who yelped loudly in the name of the poor.
A debut novel that shows promise but falters in the execution
So All Is Peace tells its readers how rigged the system is, how unfairly skewed it is in favour of men and how it is the complicity of men in taking advantage of their position in a patriarchal setup that leads to the horrors we see in the news every day.
‘I am a ruthless novelist’: Elizabeth Gilbert
American writer Elizabeth Gilbert on shaking up literary templates and holding up her scars to the light.
Shokoofeh Azar is among the 13 writers, and Iran’s first, to be on the Booker Prize International longlist
Azar, 48, who has been living in Australia (Melbourne) as a political refugee since 2011, becomes the first Iranian author to have been recognised by the £50,000 prize, which is split between the winning author and translator.
Setting the Record Straight
British writer Hallie Rubenhold’s latest book tells the story of the five victims of Jack the Ripper.
Milind Soman: I fell in love many times but never with a man
The actor talks about how procrastination became his best friend in dealing with smoking addiction, why his wife to him was a mystery, breaking of vicious habits like smoking, alcohol and more.
Gautam Bhatia’s new book takes a nuanced look at the palimpsest that we perceive Delhi to be
The author accords a voice to the hustle and bustle of daily life in the city, as well as to distinctive personalities that reside in it, such as politicians, bureaucrats, labourers, builders, the rich and the poor.
Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka returns with a crackling whodunit a decade after his debut
It is clear that Karunatilaka is a fearless writer, perhaps the most important quality in a writer. It also helps that he is astonishingly funny. Together, these qualities make Chats with the Dead a fascinating read.
‘As an eternal foreigner, I don’t take anything for granted’: Isabel Allende
Peru-born Chilean writer Isabel Allende, 77, who describes herself as a ‘novelist, feminist, and philanthropist’ on carrying her family name with pride, immersing herself in poetry before a new work and her latest novel.
Rohingya refugees in India sketch their stories in a comic book
Put together by World Comics India, a collective that promotes comics as a communication and empowerment tool for the marginalised, the book is an outcome of a workshop conducted by the organisation with around 50-60 Rohingya refugees in Kalindi Kunj and Nuh, Mewat.
Shanta Gokhale’s latest book draws an intimate portrait of Shivaji Park
Gokhale’s portrait of Shivaji Park restores the neighbourhood’s heterogeneous character, starting with some of the earliest historical evidence of the people who migrated here when Mumbai was still a cluster of islands and the only “natives” were fisherfolk and Adivasis.
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