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    Shreya Sen-Handley at Stonehenge, Salisbury, UK. (By arrangement with author)Life
    Interview | Neither our homes, nor hearts, are confined to our cozy...

    Travel makes us better people, and the world a better place, says Shreya Sen-Handley

    27 March 2022 12:21 AM IST

    Book Review | Joy, heartbreak, anger: What women writeBooks
    Book Review | Joy, heartbreak, anger: What women write

    In a model case scenario, there should be no reason to have a separate category of women's fiction other than to amplify...

    20 March 2022 12:11 AM IST

    The rickshawwallah pedals us to the arcade where Maa finds her shop, meets her lady friend and conducts her business. (Representational Image/ Pexels.com.)Opinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | Why can't we be friends?

    Why is women's safety' a bugbear? Is slut-shaming and middle-class paranoia not its effect but its cause?

    13 March 2022 2:46 AM IST

    The Jaipur Literature Festival-2022 ends on March 14, Monday. (Photo: facebook)Opinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | Festival of ideas

    Big minds jousted spiritedly on JLF-2022's hybrid arena

    12 March 2022 2:24 AM IST

    Cover image of the book The Rossogolla Murders by Debeshi Gooptu. (Twitter)Books
    Book Review | Murders, served with dollops of laughter

    Dolly is suspected of one of the murders and it is up to Mini to don the sleuth's hat and clear her friend's name

    20 Feb 2022 2:30 AM IST

    John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee By Amit Ranjan. (Amazon Photo)Books
    Book Review | Discovering the Oz author who was lawyer for Rani of...

    In his short life of 48 years, John Lang produced 23 novels, one travelogue, some plays and five volumes of poetry

    20 Nov 2021 7:57 PM IST

    Cover page of Banaras: of Gods, Humans and StoriesBooks
    Book review | Two exquisite odes to a pair of ancient cities

    Part-history, part-travelogue and part-reportage, Biswas and Nabi's extensive work traces the evolution of Shiva's home...

    10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM IST

    Coverpage of Mahanadi By Anita Agnihotri.Books
    Book Review | A great river's stories that inquire, inform

    A classic example of realist eco-fiction, it effortlessly straddles the domains of geography, sociology, cultural...

    25 Sept 2021 11:33 PM IST

    Marzia Babakarkhail.Newsmakers
    Afghanistan has changed, women will fight back'

    Marzia Babakarkhail has zero regrets for taking on the Taliban and is planning her return

    27 Aug 2021 12:54 AM IST

    The release of the book is perfectly timed to coincide with the month of the birth anniversary of Ganguly (July 18), the first female doctor to practise in India, and the International Doctors Day (July 1). (Image: Amazon)Books
    Book Review | Clear-eyed and engrossing look back at six Indian...

    To her credit, Kavitha Rao's Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine steers clear of such...

    1 Aug 2021 2:08 AM IST

    Laurel Hubbard.Sports
    The Laurel Hubbard controversy: Transwomen vs women in sport

    Should transwomen compete with women? Should intersex sport be a separate category?

    10 July 2021 11:39 AM IST

    Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian pressBooks
    Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

    For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media

    4 July 2021 3:31 AM IST

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