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A Woman in a Story

Shashi Deshpande

When Marathi actress Vandana Mishra bids farewell to high heels in a different kind of Bombay

Alain de Botton: The Post-Romantic

Alain de Botton returns to fiction and redeems love from romance. The philosopher novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

Life Is Nowhere

The last of Tahmima Anam’s Bengal trilogy compresses the domestic and the global into an evocative narrative

Crime and Nourishment

Our contributor offers a noir formula to thriller seekers

Divine Comedy by the Hoogly

In The Cauliflower, a novel about Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa by Nicola Barker, the most daring...

I Know What You Will Read This Summer

An American master on mortality, a Nobel laureate on New Russia and more. Bibliotherapy for the summer

Rohan Murty: Culture Capitalist

How humanities can redeem science and technology. The passions of Rohan Murty

Karan Mahajan: A Case of Exploding Metaphors

The Delhi-born, US-based writer's new novel captures the terror and tragedy of our time

A Radioactive Debate

What the struggle in a Tamil Nadu village says about the other side of development

Body Guides

An entire generation of girls now define themselves by how active (or not) they are sexually

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