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Book Excerpt | How Telugu films celebrate folk heroes and NTR created Bobbili sub-genre
Folk stories are also where Telugu cinema draws its method of exaggerated emotions from.
31 Mar 2024 12:05 AM
Book Review | Nature the teacher in land of renunciation
The book is many-layered as it moves between the past and the present. Memory and its sister recollection imbue the lives of the characters.
30 Mar 2024 11:05 PM
Book Review | Nayanima’s testimony of Kabul’s fall has a few what-ifs, some caveats
Two days before Kabul fell to the Taliban the journalist proposed to write a despatch predicting its imminent takeover
30 Mar 2024 9:27 PM
Book Review | An old woman’s odd quest to find her co-wives
Antony’s prose is so lyrical that it can be set to music
23 Mar 2024 1:44 PM
Exactly how do we bring in selfless leaders, redraft democracy?
In effect, what democracy and democratic institutions require is periodic review, reflection, audit and redesign
23 Mar 2024 1:42 PM
Book Review | At waltz of Dragon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle, Nehru’s prescience
On the whole, the book offers us a reminder that the present may be equally difficult to weather as the storms over China gather afresh
23 Mar 2024 1:38 PM
Book Review | Editor’s honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of letters
His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha’s literary career
18 Mar 2024 12:27 AM
Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction
The writing is patchy: It’s good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just plain wretched
17 Mar 2024 1:06 PM
Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit
It’s only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act together
17 Mar 2024 12:54 PM
Book review | A writer’s diary is a repository of ideas
One thread that runs through Kumar’s Yellow Book is the pandemic
09 Mar 2024 8:49 PM
Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown
Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read
09 Mar 2024 8:40 PM
AI cannot imagine something new and original that can have impact years later: Laurent Daudet
The threat of AI-driven job loss and corporate takeover of the world is more real than we anticipated
09 Mar 2024 2:19 PM
Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?
They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures
09 Mar 2024 2:15 PM
Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat
Foreign Minister Jaishankar's insightful analysis of India's global standing, though dense, sheds light on the nation's diplomatic victories
03 Mar 2024 12:00 AM
In Facebook, there are no footnotes: Kai Bird
It’s a terrific thing to win the Pulitzer and it is the only award in America that actually helps to sell books
02 Mar 2024 5:16 PM
Book Review | Writer’s muse parses a Victorian court drama
Zadie Smith’s novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider
25 Feb 2024 1:20 PM
Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India’s first indie publishing giant
Rajen had already moved to Delhi a decade earlier to establish Rupa’s branch
25 Feb 2024 12:57 PM
Book Review | A tale of two CMs who put Andhra Pradesh on the path of modernity
The other figure in focus in this book is Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, arguably the only “people’s CM” undivided Andhra Pradesh has known
25 Feb 2024 12:53 PM
I write sense into anarchy, share that vision with reader: Manoj Rupda
Hindi writer Manoj Rupda sheds light on the inspiration, significance of silence and political undertones in his critically acclaimed novel
22 Feb 2024 10:39 PM
Book Review: For good diplomacy don’t just manage anger, channelise it!
The bottomline of India and Pakistan relationship is that normalcy is not possible until Pakistan reconciles to the reality and existence of India
17 Feb 2024 1:55 PM
Columns
The Iranian port of Chabahar, crucial for Indo-Iranian trade & regional connectivity, is up for major upgrades under a new 10-year agreement
Home Ministry seeks input to modernize pre-Independence laws, Official Secrets Act and Explosive Substances Act, amid electoral backdrop
Delhi navigates Male-Beijing proximity as Indo-Pacific tensions rise, emphasizing regional stability amidst maritime disputes
As elections unfold, substantive debates give way to rhetoric, highlighting a gap between democratic ideals and political realities.