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From Premchand’s play ‘Karbala’, to BR Ambedkar: What the idea of the ‘non-Hindu’ Hindu offers us
Scroll· 19 hours agoA century ago in 1924, Premchand, the north Indian writer, published his play Karbala. In 680 Common Era, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussain, contesting Caliph Yazid’s authority, was killed ...
A different kind of story book | Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo‘s ‘Poor Economics for...
The Hindu· 3 days agoLast year, I met the members of a Gurugram-based children’s book club to discuss a picture book I’d written about child rights. Duflo and Banerjee’s lifetime work in trying ...
The India of Anita Desai’s dreams, and a new book, ‘Rosarita’, set in Mexico
The Hindu· 3 days agoIn her latest, Rosarita (Picador), a dream-like novella, Desai gives the narrator a second-person...