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Mumbai Notebook
By Anil DharkerAll 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.
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Pandemics And Maps
By Charles Correa FoundationIn 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.
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Book Review: Pages of a Mind: Raja Ravi Varma — Life and Expressions
By Anil DharkerFrom 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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This Is What a Great Book Does to Your Brain
By INCThe neuroscience of deep reading will make you want to curl up with a great book.
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14 Authors Who Started Out as Booksellers
By Electric LiteratureIt 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.
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Quantum theory of ideas: Where two seemingly separate opinions can behave as an inseparable whole
By Ashwin SanghiMany 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.
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10 best books by Shashi Tharoor and why you should read them!
By Times Of IndiaA politician, writer, and a former international diplomat, Shashi Tharoor is a well-known in the field of literature.
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Woody Allen’s memoirs: this is the behaviour of censors, not publishers
By The GuardianWhen 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.
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Beyond an Anthropocentric Literature
By Green European JournalWhat 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.
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There are far better Congressmen outside Gandhi family to lead the party
By Anil DharkerWhoever emerges from these elections as the Congress president will have to work towards a national agenda which unites opposition parties.
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How can more women writers be published? The Women Writers’ Fest tries to provide some answers
By Neha BhattPublishing professionals had a host of suggestions for women who want to write books.
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How can more women writers be published? The Women Writers’ Fest tries to provide some answers
By ScrollPublishing professionals had a host of suggestions for women who want to write books.
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The authors reclaiming the forgotten voices of ancient women
By BBC NewsNatalie 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.
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Mumbai Notebook
By Anil DharkerUstad 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.
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Mumbai Notebook
By Anil DharkerAs 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).
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Amitav Ghosh talks three new projects, thinking in visual terms and the interplay of capitalism, imperialism
By Aditya Mani JhaAmitav 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.
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Mumbai Notebook
By Anil DhakerSridevi, 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.
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Mumbai Notebook
By Anil DharkerYou 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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