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Book review: ‘Kitchen’ by Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto is a book that I heard a lot about. This book is also one of the reasons that I visited ‘The Japan Foundation-Library’ regularly which...
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Book review: A Constitution To Keep: Sedition And Free Speech In Modern India
On 11 August 2023, the Government of India proposed a new draft of the criminal code of India. Since coming into the public domain, the said draft has sparked...
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On Devanura’s ‘RSS: The Long and Short of it’
Devanura pins down the ideology that has remained constant in the long history of RSS and calls for action on the part of those who want to save secular...
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Reading ‘Republic of Hindutva: How the Sangh is Reshaping Indian Democracy’
Badri Narayan is a distinguished historian and anthropologist who has received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. He has been widely recognized for his interventions in mainstream media and his...
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Yogesh Maitreya wins NISSIM PRIZE for English Prose 2023
Author Yogesh Maitreya has won the NISSIM PRIZE for English Prose 2023 (Special Mention) for his book "B R Ambedkar- A Life in Books.”
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Book review: RSS The Long and Short of It (2022)
Devanura Mahadeva, a leading political activist and a famed literary figure, in his latest book RSS The Long and Short of It has taken the RSS to the task.
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Book review: “A Dismantled State” chronicles, deconstructs, and questions state propaganda surrounding Naya Kashmir
On 05 August 2019, the parliament stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status by reading down Article 370 and 35A, thus dividing the erstwhile state into two union...
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Prince Harry says he killed 25 ‘fighters’ in Afghanistan
Prince Harry of British monarchy says he killed 25 "Taliban fighters" during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, according to reports based his memoir.
Spare, which is due to be...
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Bookshelf | The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy by Dr. Kafeel Khan
'The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy, A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis' is a book by Dr. Kafeel Khan who has spent nearly 500 days in prison in the last three years and targeted several times by BJP government.
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Rumours of Spring: Farah Bashir’s memoir is resistance in itself
Erstwhile Reuters photojournalist, Farah Bashir’s memoir is a timely and crucial intervention in South-Asian studies. As the title of the book suggests, it is the true story of a...
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M Mukundan’s ‘Delhi: A Soliloquy’ wins JCB Prize for Literature 2021
'Delhi: A Soliloquy' by Malayalam writer M Mukundan has won the 2021 JCB Prize for literature.
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13 books on Gujarat genocide 2002
This week marks the 19th anniversary of Muslim genocide in Gujarat.
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