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Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy is the author of a work of non-fiction, a novel and two poetry collections

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Books
Written on the Body

A master of ‘wet poems’ places the body at the centre of political and social structures 

09 March 2016
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Arts & Letters
My City for a Poet

Shrikant Verma’s Magadh is brought to new life in Rahul Soni’s translucent translation. Reading it in modern-day ‘Magadh’ is a revelation

02 December 2013
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Art & Culture
Facebook to Bhaktbook

A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption

15 May 2013
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True Life
My Adventure with Bluetooth

Sumana Roy spends an afternoon in the company of a smuggler

13 March 2013
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Books
A Modern City, Forever Old

Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist

06 March 2013
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Art & Culture
Words from This Anger

On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked

11 January 2013
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Arts & Letters
Pather Panchali

The farce surrounding one of India’s most important roads, National Highway 31

20 December 2012
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True Life
Sleepless on Facebook

The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site

03 August 2012
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Books
Maa Maati Manush, and Motor Cars

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative

30 May 2012
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Books
Reading the Reader

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader

17 May 2012

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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