New Books on the Shelves

January 15, 2025
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Scarlet Sands Udayan Mukherjee Picador Rs.450 The second instalment in the Neville Wadia Mystery series is

BOOK REVIEW | The Genesis of Indian Environmentalism in Ramachandra Guha’s “Speaking with Nature”

January 13, 2025
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Tagore was one of the founders of Indian environmentalism,” Ram Guha told me, when I had

The Disposable Woman: How Indian Cinema Uses Sexual Violence to Build Male Heroes

January 13, 2025
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A girl gets raped in Baby John, the Hindi remake of the Tamil film Theri, a crime that is

INTERVIEW | Through Paintings, I Tell Stories of Those Who Are Being Erased from the Dominant Narrative: Labani Jangi

January 12, 2025
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Labani Jangi says her award came at a time when she was being questioned by many about

One and Three Quarters Book Review: A Tale of Cats, Corruption and Political Ambition

January 12, 2025
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Serendipity brought One and Three Quarters by Shrikant Bojewar, translated by Vikrant Pande, to your reviewer who, over

PHOTO ESSAY | A Tribute to Malayalam Writer and Scenarist, M.T. Vasudevan Nair

January 12, 2025
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MT was a man of many parts. A doyen of Malayalam literature who mentored many people

Bengal Biennale Breaks Art World’s Cloistered Walls

January 12, 2025
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The recently concluded Bengal Biennale has been remarkably successful in its very first edition. Organised in

TRIBUTE | P. Jayachandran (1944-2025): Soulful Voice of Indian Playback Music, Passes Away

January 10, 2025
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Jayachandran recorded over 16,000 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi, was widely recognised for

How Kashmir’s Sufi Shrines are a Reminder of an Accommodative Islam That Once Existed in the Valley

January 8, 2025
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Kashmir has a rich Sufi heritage, which is enshrined in the ancient tombs and hermitages (or

M.T. Vasudevan Nair: The Chronicler of Kerala’s Inner Conflicts

January 8, 2025
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He was officially M.T. Vasudevan Nair, but peers close to him and friends of the same