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A screen capture from virtual Jaiput Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@JaipurLitFest)

The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary...

S. Hareesh's controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

Relatively speaking, compared with her older siblings, Saeeda Bano was definitely the rebel in her family, says Shahana

Even forthright women can be submissive'

Around the time she asked me to translate her book we had grown quite close, without really realising it - Shahana Raza

6 Dec 2020 10:52 AM IST

A puppet show on Hans Christian Andersens fairy tales from the first Rainbow Lit Fest

One of a kind: A humdinger of an LGBT arts fest

Dr Bibek Debroy and Dr Shashi Tharoor are keynote speakers of this one-year-old, two-day, online fest.

18 Nov 2020 7:31 PM IST

Cover of A Burning by Megha Majumdar.

Telling the India story, one dream at a time

'A Burning' is an intimate and clear-eyed rendering of the lives and dreams of three people

18 Oct 2020 7:57 PM IST

Women covers themselves with sheets during rain, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The Women's Party: An opening manifesto

There are three ways of ensuring equality of opportunity between the sexes free access, affirmative action and...

2 Aug 2020 5:03 PM IST

How many women need not state their purpose before leaving the homestead, even to go to the park, especially to go to the park because it is a discretionary destination? AFP Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The almost-stigma' of not breaking quarantine

Being quarantined is, at its very benign, a social fact' in the life of the Bharatiya aurat

31 May 2020 12:30 AM IST

Manoranjan Byapari

Manoranjan Byapari: I haven't written my best story yet'

A conversation with a working class hero and a man of many adventures

14 March 2020 11:14 PM IST

Off the shelf: On books, book people and places, By sridhar balan Speaking Tiger pp.246; Rs 350.

Reluctant writer pens a book about publishing

Dean went on to establish the Mahomed Baths in London and came to be known as the shampooing surgeon .

14 Feb 2020 2:53 AM IST

You want to, but you cannot live in the past

You want to, but you cannot live in the past'

You want to but can't live in the past, so you live with a pain that eats at you constantly.

9 Feb 2020 8:35 AM IST

Economy Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee speaks at Jaipur Listerature Festival on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

No intention to be RBI governor: Abhijit Banerjee

Oraganiser and author William Darlymple draws analogy between East India Company and current British govt.

31 Jan 2020 1:17 AM IST

Bollywood actor Sonali Bendre during the Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 at Diggi Palace on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Let's embrace opinion, dissent: Ashok Gehlot

13th edition of the 5-day Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off.

31 Jan 2020 1:12 AM IST

Bollywood actress Dia Mirza gets emotional during the Jaipur Literature Festival on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Places, poetry and pushing boundaries

Talking about poetry is like taking a hot bath in a tub with your clothes on, says poet-writer Jeet Thayil.

28 Jan 2020 4:38 AM IST