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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 their voices
20 Mar 2022 12:11 AM
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 Mar 2022 2:46 AM
Sucheta Dasgupta | Festival of ideas
Big minds jousted spiritedly on JLF-2022’s hybrid arena
12 Mar 2022 2:24 AM
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
Book Review | Discovering the Oz author who was lawyer for Rani of Jhansi
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
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 by the Ganges
10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM
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 history and anthropology
25 Sep 2021 11:33 PM
‘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
Book Review | Clear-eyed and engrossing look back at six Indian medical pioneers
To her credit, Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine steers clear of such predilections
01 Aug 2021 2:08 AM
The Laurel Hubbard controversy: Transwomen vs women in sport
Should transwomen compete with women? Should intersex sport be a separate category?
10 Jul 2021 11:39 AM
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
04 Jul 2021 3:31 AM
Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus
Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh continued uninterrupted
25 Apr 2021 12:00 AM
Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam’s heterodox legacy
The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with the Prophet’s faith
11 Apr 2021 8:15 AM
Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel
It’s not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas
28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM
The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary show on earth
S. Hareesh’s controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature
21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM
‘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
06 Dec 2020 10:52 AM
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
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
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 reservation of seats
02 Aug 2020 5:03 PM
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
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Economic woes, agrarian discontent, and regional dynamics may pose hurdles for BJP's electoral prospects.
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Opposition gains ground as President Yoon faces domestic discontent and foreign policy complexities