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For Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni , telling stories is a way of life. But her stories are not just, simplistic tales of love, longing or rootlessness told through one-dimensional …
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“In the Arab world, explains an Egyptian gynaecologist, sex is the opposite of sport: ‘everyone talks about football, but hardly anyone plays it. But sex — everyone is doing it, …
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( Book: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption; Author: Laura Hillenbrand; Publisher Random House) The author of the best-selling non-fiction Seabiscuit, which was made into …
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(Book: City of Devi; Author: Manil Suri; Publisher: Bloomsbury) The final instalment in mathematician-author Manil Suri’s trilogy is curiously dedicated to ‘Devi,’ and not the third Hindu God in the …
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(Book: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead; Author: Sheryl Sandberg; Publisher: Knopf) Since its release in March, the book by Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, named by Forbes …
Read MoreWith the death of Chinua Achebe, lovers of literature lost a friend; Nigerians, a philosopher; Africans, a guide; and social activists, a writer activist. The neo-colonial African scenario has thrown …
Read MoreINJURY TIME these steps holding your attraction will falter in a rare shadowy evening. The broken stars will still be shimmering away in a moonless sky. some movement inside the …
Read MoreNirbhaya, the Fearless One, The radiant dreamer, yearning to touch the sky Assaulted, wounded and stricken, Your body the Cross, you die; So that we may live, love and lie. …
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Let’s get things straight between us dear God who does not exist. You have no form, no face, no voice, no colour, you are nothing yet claim to be …
Read MoreIt isn’t novelist Salman Rushdie this time. But controversy and the Jaipur Literature Festival have met yet again. Just three days into the fest, sociologist Ashis Nandy’s controversial comments that …
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