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July fiction picks: A new novella by Anita Desai and five just-published books to read this month
Scroll· 4 days agoBonita, a young student from India, sits on a park bench in San Miguel, Mexico – where she has arrived to learn Spanish. No, says Bonita, my mother did not paint. Into a story where Bonita and ...
Another Stampede, Another Tragedy: Will India Ever Learn? - News18
News18· 4 days agoIt has been four days since the Hathras tragedy. The dust is yet to settle, the mud still drying in...
Of Satsangs, Stampedes, Refugees and Guru Dutt
Kashmir Times· 4 days agoAs of the date of my filing this column (4 July afternoon), he seems far away from the grasp of the police force! Strange! It seems a certain political...
Agatha All Along Reveals First Trailer, Showing Off MCU Horror Vibes
IGN India· 2 days agoThe two-minute trailer for the latest Disney+ spinoff strikes a different tone than most other MCU...
One killed, 40 others sustain injuries after stempede breaks out in Puri Rath Yatra
The Telegraph· 3 days agoAn unidentified devotee died while 40 others sustained injuries as a stampede broke out during the...
Book excerpt: Meet the Angry Young Women of 1970s cinema
Scroll· 5 days agoMs Provocation, or Runa Singh, is a minor character in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Mili (1975), about the romance between the misanthropic Shekhar, who has a tragic backstory, ...
Sunday book pick: The long hours of an endless night in ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
Scroll· 3 days agoChilean writer Alejandra Zambra’s 2007 novel La vida privada de los árboles was translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell as The Private Lives of Trees and first published ...
Wendy Doniger recounts the myth of how Brahma created death, diseases, desire and anger
Scroll· 19 hours agoWhen Brahma had created all the creatures, they became extremely old and numerous but did not die. Then Brahma began to think about destroying it all, but he could not think of any reason to ...