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Book review: My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

‘My People Shall Live’ is the autobiography of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) revolutionary Leila Khaled who attempted two plane hijacks- TWA Flight 840 and El-Al Flight 219 in 1969 and 1970 in order to free her people who were being held as prisoners in Israel, as well as bring the Palestinian cause to the forefront. The book, originally published in 1973, was edited by George Hajjar. 
Film and TV

Art Deco, aspiration, and air in middle cinema

I was already a mother when I first came to know that the house I live in is called Art Deco by architects and academics.
Literature

Milan Kundera, author of ‘Unbearable Lightness of Being’, dies at 94

Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94 after a prolonged illness.
India

I was not informed about Gandhi Peace Prize being awarded to Gita Press: Jury member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said Tuesday that though he was a jury member of Gandhi Peace Prize, he was kept in the dark about the decision to award 2021 Prize to the Gita Press, the publishing house which is associated with Hindu nationalism.
Literature

Perumal Murugan makes International Booker Prize 2023 longlist with ‘Pyre’

Perumal Murugan, a renowned Tamil author, has made it to the longlist of the International Booker Prize 2023 for his book 'Pyre'. The book, originally written in Tamil, has been translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan. This marks the first time that Tamil has appeared on the prestigious award's longlist.
India

‘Hum Dekhenge.’ Photobook on anti-CAA protest and Delhi pogrom released

Afra Abubacker -
The coffee table photo book ‘Hum Dekhenge: Protest and Pogrom’ launched on Monday at Press Club of India is the compilation of the collective resistance that has been time and again erased.
India

Shalim Hussain’s ‘I am Miyah’ wins PEN Translates award

Maktoob Staff -
Poet and scholar Shalim Hussain on Tuesday won the English PEN’s flagship translation award 2021 for I am Miyah: Poetry and Song by Bengali-Muslims in Assam.
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Features

Reading ‘Midnight’s Borders’

Afeef Ahmed -
‘The Dog of Tithwal’ is a short story by Sadat Hasan Manto. It stands out for its brutal yet subtle metaphors of partitioned lives in the post-colonial/post-partition Indian subcontinent....
Literature

Jaipur Literature Festival 2022: Elif Shafak, Kei Miller among speakers

Maktoob Staff -
The annual Jaipur Literature Festival announced its second list of speakers for the much-awaited 15th edition, set to take place from January 28 to February 1, 2022, in Jaipur.
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Lifestyle

Adele 30: the psychology of why sad songs make us feel good

Guest Author -
Simon McCarthy-Jones, Trinity College Dublin Adele’s new album, 30, is finally available. Last month, hundreds of millions of us streamed its first single, Easy On Me. This song evokes feelings...
Bookshelf

M Mukundan’s ‘Delhi: A Soliloquy’ wins JCB Prize for Literature 2021

Maktoob Staff -
'Delhi: A Soliloquy' by Malayalam writer M Mukundan has won the 2021 JCB Prize for literature.
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Literature

South African writer Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with ‘spectacular’ novel The Promise

Maktoob Staff -
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Promise.
Literature

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: an introduction to the man and his writing

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Lizzy Attree, Richmond American International University The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between...
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Literature

How photography can build peace in war-torn communities

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Pamina Firchow, Brandeis University; Tiffany Fairey, King's College London, and Yvette Selim, University of Technology Sydney It’s not easy for most people to think about what peace and justice mean...
Features

Innocent Prisoners; A first-hand experience with State, police and judiciary

Afra Abubacker -
Abdul Wahid Shaikh's 500 plus pages book published by Pharos publication, will be one of the most poignant contemporary prison literature, which has scanned and exposed the Indian state apparatus most blatantly.
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Literature

Afroz Alam Sahil on his new book ‘Lockdown Diaries’ and people who launched it

Unsa Khan -
The most special quality of the book is that although I’ve written my life events in the book but it doesn’t necessarily revolve around my life or I’m not the ‘hero’ of the book but the happenings, mishaps and all the basic events that happened during the lockdown are the ‘main’ focus of the book.
Literature

Full text: Amanda Gorman’s poem at Joe Biden inauguration

Maktoob Staff -
The inauguration of US President Joe Biden featured a slew of high-profile performers on Wednesday, but for many it was the lesser-known Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, who truly wowed the crowd.
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