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From Seoul to Naples: how translated books are winning Indian hearts

For many, translations open a window into cultures they’ve only glimpsed through cinema, K-dramas, or news headlines.
access_time 29 Aug 2025 3:43 PM IST
“Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?”: Rakhshanda Jalil reclaims Urdu as an Indian language
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“Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?”: Rakhshanda Jalil reclaims Urdu as an...

access_time 28 Aug 2025 7:54 PM IST
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Three books to understand the American way of world dominion

The settler colonial state has a formula that has been tested and perfected over time.

access_time 27 Aug 2025 10:12 PM IST
1984
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The totalitarian blueprint: four ways Orwell’s 1984 predicted future

Every time a group wants to control a population, it follows the same playbook - surveillance, manipulation, erosion of...

access_time 26 Aug 2025 2:33 PM IST
Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai makes it to the longlist again!
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Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai makes it to the longlist again!

Desai, who won the prestigious literary prize 19 years ago, makes it to the list with her ‘vast, immersive' ‘The...

access_time 29 July 2025 11:02 PM IST
Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter Prize
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Sudanese-Scottish writer Leila Aboulela wins PEN Pinter Prize

The writer has cast an "unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world” in the spirit of Harold Pinter, after whom the...

access_time 10 July 2025 7:51 PM IST
Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards: Indugopan, Anitha win bests
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards: Indugopan, Anitha win bests

When GR Indugopan won the best novel for "Aano", Anitha Thampi received the poetry award for "Muringa Vazha Kariveppu"

access_time 26 Jun 2025 10:20 PM IST
DNA confirms filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala died in Ahmedabad plane crash
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DNA confirms filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala died in Ahmedabad plane crash

Jirawala, who had been missing since last week's Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, was confirmed dead after DNA...

access_time 21 Jun 2025 6:04 PM IST
Akhil P Dharmajan wins Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for ‘Ram c/o Anandi’
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Akhil P Dharmajan wins Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for ‘Ram c/o Anandi’

Writer Sreejit Muthedath was honoured with the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his children’s novel ‘Penguinukalude...

access_time 18 Jun 2025 6:28 PM IST
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MK Stalin presents royalties to five eminent Tamil scholars

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Renowned author of Ice Candy Man and more, Bapsi Sidhwa, dies

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