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    John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee By Amit Ranjan. (Amazon Photo)Books
    Book Review | Discovering the Oz author who was lawyer for Rani of...

    In his short life of 48 years, John Lang produced 23 novels, one travelogue, some plays and five volumes of poetry

    20 Nov 2021 7:57 PM IST

    Cover page of Banaras: of Gods, Humans and StoriesBooks
    Book review | Two exquisite odes to a pair of ancient cities

    Part-history, part-travelogue and part-reportage, Biswas and Nabi's extensive work traces the evolution of Shiva's home...

    10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM IST

    Coverpage of Mahanadi By Anita Agnihotri.Books
    Book Review | A great river's stories that inquire, inform

    A classic example of realist eco-fiction, it effortlessly straddles the domains of geography, sociology, cultural...

    25 Sept 2021 11:33 PM IST

    Marzia Babakarkhail.Newsmakers
    Afghanistan has changed, women will fight back'

    Marzia Babakarkhail has zero regrets for taking on the Taliban and is planning her return

    27 Aug 2021 12:54 AM IST

    The release of the book is perfectly timed to coincide with the month of the birth anniversary of Ganguly (July 18), the first female doctor to practise in India, and the International Doctors Day (July 1). (Image: Amazon)Books
    Book Review | Clear-eyed and engrossing look back at six Indian...

    To her credit, Kavitha Rao's Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine steers clear of such...

    1 Aug 2021 2:08 AM IST

    Laurel Hubbard.Sports
    The Laurel Hubbard controversy: Transwomen vs women in sport

    Should transwomen compete with women? Should intersex sport be a separate category?

    10 July 2021 11:39 AM IST

    Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian pressBooks
    Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

    For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media

    4 July 2021 3:31 AM IST

    A COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara, in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus

    Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh...

    25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Until a generation ago, there were two kinds of Muslims in India, the Communists and the conformists, Wahab says. DC ImageBooks
    Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam's heterodox...

    The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with...

    11 April 2021 8:15 AM IST

    Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)Books
    Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel

    It's not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas

    28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

    A screen capture from virtual Jaiput Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@JaipurLitFest)Life
    The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary...

    S. Hareesh's controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

    21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

    Relatively speaking, compared with her older siblings, Saeeda Bano was definitely the rebel in her family, says ShahanaBooks
    Even forthright women can be submissive'

    Around the time she asked me to translate her book we had grown quite close, without really realising it - Shahana Raza

    6 Dec 2020 10:52 AM IST

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