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In 2001 Indian-American maths professor Manil Suri made headlines when his debut novel The Death of Vishnu created a big buzz with wild figures being tossed around as advance the …
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Rajeev Lochan, a gifted artist who has a genius for transfiguring the mundane in his paintings, has also carved a space for himself as an efficient art administrator. As director …
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Known for using the physical approach to acting – what he calls “imagine with your body, where the body is the imagination” – Israeli theatre director and acting trainer Prof. …
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“I have read more books than I have eaten food. The matter for my writing comes from there. Writing is activism for me.” Mahasweta Devi. Meeting Mahasweta Devi was an …
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The rent-a-womb practice has evolved into a thriving industry in India, which is estimated to be over $2 billion. More than 250,000 children are now born in India through surrogates, …
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In the daily mayhem and blood-letting of a Taliban-infested Afghanistan, it’s not easy to spin a love story, and that too, a novel which is interspersed with generous doses of …
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John Zubrzycki, an Australian journalist, has authored a finely-nuanced portrait of Mukarram Jah, the last Nizam of Hyderabad. The book conjures up the life and times of a fabulously wealthy …
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Author and analyst Ruchir Sharma could easily be mistaken for a model, with his clean good looks and impeccable manners. But if you were to talk to him and have …
Read MoreM.G. Vassanji’s new novel The Assassin’s Song is a homecoming of sorts for the Canada-based author as he etches a finely poised dialectic between faith and tradition on the one …
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KHARTOUM: A conversation with Sheikh Hassan al-Turabi, derided by the West as the “Black Pope of Terrorism,” is like descending into the dark heart of Islamist radicalism that flaunts its …
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