All of us saw the television visuals and heard the accompanying reports of 2000 people gathered outside the railway’s Bandra Terminus. All of us saw a small group of policemen standing helplessly by while someone seemed to be addressing the crowd. Finally, we saw the cops lathi charging the men who then ran helter-skelter.
Read Full ArticleIn the wake of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the CCF team came across a collection of maps that spatially visualise outbreaks, and did a little research around the analytics that illustrate pandemic movements. As it turns out, there has been an effort to document pandemics since as early as the 1600s.
Read Full ArticleFrom the depiction of heroines in Indian cinema to calendar art, a commemorative book on artist Raja Ravi Varma seeks to understand the less obvious aspects of the artist's influence, notes Anil Dharker
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Read Full ArticleIt is universally-known that if you want to write a book you should read a lot of books, but a piece of unexpected advice for aspiring writers? Work in a bookstore.
Read Full ArticleMany ideas can only be described by what they are not rather than by what they are. Dig a little deeper into Hindu philosophy and we find that rishis were in the same dilemna as us.
Read Full ArticleA politician, writer, and a former international diplomat, Shashi Tharoor is a well-known in the field of literature.
Read Full ArticleWhen Hachette bought Woody Allen’s autobiography, they no doubt expected it to be controversial. And no doubt they expected it to be a commercial success.
Read Full ArticleWhat is the relationship between literature and ecology? How does literature express, explore, and define our perceptions of the ways in which humans and animals are bound together in the world they inhabit? Anne Simon explains some insights from her research on animals and animality in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.
Read Full ArticleWhoever emerges from these elections as the Congress president will have to work towards a national agenda which unites opposition parties.
Read Full ArticlePublishing professionals had a host of suggestions for women who want to write books.
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Read Full ArticleNatalie Haynes is one of a new group of writers reclaiming women's voices from ancient literature. Along with authors such as Pat Barker and Madeline Miller, she's telling new versions of the Classics, veering away from epic fights and macho heroes.
Read Full ArticleUstad Zakir Hussain is best known the world over as a tabla virtuoso. But as with any extraordinarily gifted artist, he has explored other fields. Years ago, he collaborated with violinist L Shankar, classical guitar maestro John McLaughlin, mridangam player Ramnad Raghavan and legendary ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram to form the fusion group Shakti.
Read Full ArticleAs I sat in my car waiting futilely for some movement, I thanked the presiding Traffic Deity that I don’t live in Bengaluru. Delhi is bad (Number 8, 56%), Pune is very bad (Number 5, 59%), Mumbai is worse (Number 4, 65%), Bengaluru is worst (Number 1, 71%). These figures were released by Tom Tom Traffic Index for 2019 at the end of January (even traffic indices move slowly).
Read Full ArticleAmitav Ghosh has announced three new projects — Jungle-Nama, a verse retelling of the legend of Bon-Bibi, a Sunderbans epic; a new collection of essays; and The Invisible Hand.
Read Full ArticleSridevi, the Eternal Screen Goddess, the title of a book Literature Live! launched recently, seemed like a bit of a hyperbole. However, the reaction that came in on Twitter after the event showed that the writer, a young man called Satyarth Nayak, wasn’t exaggerating: men and women (but more women than men) obviously worshipped her.
Read Full ArticleYou could sense the frisson of excitement when Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo walked into Rendezvous at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. You might have done outstanding work recognised the world over by your peers, but the layman will not have heard of you. However, get the Nobel, and you become a house-hold name. So it must be with this husband and wife team.
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