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No more flogging a dead horse
Hamzah believes that the increased awareness of vegan issues will filter through consciousness to produce new modes of expression.
14 Dec 2018 6:30 AM
Gilkey, whose love for books became an obsession
Gilkey committed his first crime at the age of nine or 10 where he quietly shoplifted a baseball catcher’s mitt.
30 Nov 2018 1:03 AM
‘Book hand-sellers are as rare as ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas’
The values inherent in books are not immediately discernible and it requires a book-lover to discover them.
16 Nov 2018 12:40 AM
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Another new word is the adjective “bongga,” which means extravagant, flamboyant, impressive, stylish or excellent.
02 Nov 2018 12:47 AM
Discovering the Queen’s love for books
One of the highlights in the Queen’s itinerary was the inauguration of the Indo-British Participation and Summit Meeting at Pragati Maidan.
12 Oct 2018 12:26 AM
Wanted: A Gawande to govern healthcare
Gawande says all learned occupations have a definition of professionalism - a code of conduct.
28 Sep 2018 1:21 AM
The gods bestow a favour
Raja Rao had started his literary career at the age of 15 initially in Kannada and later in English.
13 Sep 2018 12:42 AM
When a cow turns into a ‘rakshak’
Three leading English publishing firms set up offices in India at the end of nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.
31 Aug 2018 12:57 AM
Kipling’s Panchayat of the Gods
The lines certainly smack of racism along with Kipling’s advice to the then American president that America had a ‘moral duty’ in the Philippines.
17 Aug 2018 12:23 AM
The World in a Wall
Durrell life’s work and lasting legacy was in establishing the great zoo in the island of Jersey a part of the Channel Islands.
03 Aug 2018 1:10 AM
The monk who had sold a fortune
The fans soon switched back to football and there they stayed. The football final match was symbolic.
20 Jul 2018 12:46 AM
Fikry, an eccentric bookseller and a doting father
At the end, Fikry is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer “glioblastoma multiforme”.
06 Jul 2018 12:23 AM
How Alice in Wonderland came into being
Even Macmillan was not prepared for the reception the public accorded to Alice in Wonderland.
22 Jun 2018 1:11 AM
It’s important to nurture and endure reading habit
Reading from a print format helps develop imagination and conjure visions in the mind.
08 Jun 2018 1:23 AM
Whatever happened to plain, simple English?
The charges in the said case have also led to users trying their hand at English to outdo Tharoor.
25 May 2018 1:46 AM
The ghosts of Cheenapatti
One of the company’s mandates to its English and Scottish officers, brave enough to go on expeditions, was to find an alternative source for tea.
11 May 2018 12:31 AM
Indian therapy in England
Mahomed and Jane migrated to London in 1807. Mahomed found service with a nobleman Basil Cochrane.
27 Apr 2018 1:01 AM
A kind of madness, not so gentle
It was this book that was displayed and and successfully auctioned at the online auction by StoryLtd.
13 Apr 2018 1:55 AM
Workers’ plight akin to Shakespeare’s tragdies
When Shakespeare died in 1616, 18 of his plays, among them the more famous Shakespeare tragedies died with him.
30 Mar 2018 1:10 AM
The man who beat Hawking at more than table tennis
Hawking had posed a query and this was clarified by Narlikar, saying that Hawking had missed the “non-linear” character of his presentation.
16 Mar 2018 1:22 AM
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