Jamtara turns a new page with public library movement
Satyasundar BarikInfamous as ‘India’s phishing capital’, the tiny Jharkhand district now has 45 public libraries diverting youth away from cybercrime.
Authors
Refugees are the heroes in Paro Anand’s ‘Nomad’s Land’
Deepa Alexander In her book for young adults, Paro Anand introduces the world of displaced communities and their search for boundless horizons and hope through the story of two schoolgirls
Books
Does Amanda Gorman’s poem match up to the standards of the best Anglophone poetry by Black poets?
Tabish Khair Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?
Books
Girish Karnad memoir in English to be out in May
PTI "This Life at Play: A Memoir by Girish Karnad" translated by Srinath Perur, will be released on the director's 83rd birth anniversary on May 19 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Reviews
‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19
Kandaswami Subramanian
Arun Kumar on the losses caused by the pandemic for India and its poor
Reviews
‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance
Rajeev Kadambi
A brilliant philosophical analysis is marred by theories limited to the imagination, failing to link a radical politics to reality
Society
Tales from the knight bus: Rupam Dutta
Prabalika M. Borah From elephants that demand a toll to manoeuvering risky hairpin bends, Rupam Dutta shares his onroad experiences in the book ‘Life Of A Driver - Cabinor Ipare’
