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Seamlessly moving between worlds Mini Anthikad Chhibber

Being a hybrid author, Shweta Taneja says, allows her to experiment and explore all opportunities, mediums, and platforms available

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Our plot against evil

Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta Stories remain among the best ways to teach children how to cultivate empathy and mutual respect

Books Should ‘post-truth’ depress us? Jacob Koshy If science could build itself on foundations that were post-truth, there is no reason why we cannot restore our faith in reading, opinion, analysis

Books The book in my hand A weekly column on what well-known personalities are reading and planning to read. This week, it is former cricketer and commentator Atul Wassan and former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A.S. Dulat.

Authors I was haunted by the margins: Kunal Basu

Reviews Burra sahib, chotta sahib

Books Goa’s many histories Aditya Sudarshan A publishing house that’s determined to reclaim the forgotten texts of Goa’s storied past.

International ‘Post-truth’ is Oxford Dictionaries’ word of 2016 AFP Post-truth has gone from being a peripheral term to being a mainstay in political commentary.

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‘Writing for children is a responsibility’

R. Krithika Sudha Murthy talks about her process of writing, her books and her latest release, The Serpent’s Revenge

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Veils, Halos and Shackles by Kasva Press

Reviews Deeply disturbing, immensely redemptive Maithreyi Karnoor

Thanks to its curatorial ingenuity, this book would beequally at home in a Women’s Studies class and on a bibliophile’s bookshelf

Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South Asia; Partha S. Ghosh, Sage Publishing, Rs. 995.

Reviews Enlarging boundaries Govindan Nair

This meticulously researched work covers many aspects of trans-national migration in the South Asian region

Reviews Burra sahib, chotta sahib

Anthology Reviews Anthology The South Asian woman’s body

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Should ‘post-truth’ depress us?

Jacob Koshy If science could build itself on foundations that were post-truth, there is no reason why we cannot restore our faith in reading, opinion, analysis

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The book in my hand

A weekly column on what well-known personalities are reading and planning to read. This week, it is former cricketer and commentator Atul Wassan and former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A.S. Dulat.

Books

Our plot against evil

Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta Stories remain among the best ways to teach children how to cultivate empathy and mutual respect

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Seamlessly moving between worlds

Mini Anthikad Chhibber Being a hybrid author, Shweta Taneja says, allows her to experiment and explore all opportunities, mediums, and platforms available

Authors

‘Writing for children is a responsibility’

R. Krithika Sudha Murthy talks about her process of writing, her books and her latest release, The Serpent’s Revenge

Authors

The November stories

ANANDI MISHRA Many aspiring writers are furiously writing to get their novels completed before National Novel Writing Month ends

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Always trust the witches Keki N. Daruwalla

Let’s draw a circle on a sheet of paper and call it earth, say these poets

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Written by the characters Mini Kapoor

John le Carre had never billed his latest and long-awaited book, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life, as a memoir. Some of the material in these “

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Sweet music of bat hitting ball Keki N. Daruwalla

Thank god, there is no Contempt of Poetry Act

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Mini Kapoor “Living in the mountains is not a romance for everyone,” cautions Ruskin Bond while introducing Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life (Speaking Tiger), an anthology he has edited along with Namita Gokhale. “Wresting a living from the stony, calcified soil does not leave much time for poetry and contemplation.” Yet, the rugged mountain range has drawn all kinds of people, adventurers, loners, mystics, ne’er-do-wells, and perhaps no one has been as open-heartedly hospitable to strangers as have

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Reading Room

New book titles to look forward to this week

Poetry Wire

Always trust the witches Keki N. Daruwalla

Let’s draw a circle on a sheet of paper and call it earth, say these poets

Reviews Enlarging boundaries

Reviews Deeply disturbing, immensely redemptive