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JAIPUR: Dovetailing the preciosities of the high-brow with the pugnacities of popular culture, the seventh edition of the Jaipur Literary Festival is in full flow in this famous touristy city …
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Poet and novelist Simon Armitage lives in West Yorkshire, but his true home is that numinous place called poetry. He likes to think of himself as a man who hangs …
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It is a book that immerses the reader in its rich descriptions of a life that ceased to be more than a century ago. It is not about a person …
Read MoreJust a few days ago, a couple was brutally murdered in Haryana’s Rohtak district for defying their village caste traditions, and eloping to get married. They were adults, mind you! …
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For years Dr Sunetra Gupta has been working on mathematical models to make sense of the evolutionary ecology of infectious disease systems at the University of Oxford’s Zoology department and …
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The Unnameable The sea sings a sad song, Waves whisper intimacies Abyss is the Beloved. He desires no belonging, Only a deep-down sadness parted lips, the unspoken. The equipoise of …
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CITY SCAPE Across the broad streets the buildings Shape shadows and human whimpers Clutter the sideways. We nurture emotions Like unwanted money plants sprouting Patchy colours on corroded …
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Stories are what Khaled Hosseini, the publishing world’s biggest sensation, loves to tell and tells them rather well. His first novel, The Kite Runner (2003), a heart-breaking story of two …
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Between the extremes of hagiography and demonology lie the middle space of irony, ambivalence and black satire. Bangladeshi-Canadian author Neemat Imam has found the perfect pitch to demystify the lives …
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O’ Mirror Mirror Mirror on the wall you have been fooling me, after all. What i saw was just a reflection; this vanity needed much correction. One fine …
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