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Illness As Allegory

Shylashri Shankar

Pandemic thoughts after reading Mary Shelley and Albert Camus

Akbar’s Idea of India

The topical reverberations of Ira Mukhoty’s biography of the great Mughal

The Subcontinent at Ease

A history of a brief window of cooperation casts an interesting light on India’s relations with Pakistan

Nowhere Man

In his novel about a Sri Lankan migrant in Australia, Aravind Adiga makes the reader care with his well-earned facts

Festival Insider

Namita Gokhale's true fiction about the most interesting and least known characters of a lit fest

An East-West Encounter

An anecdotal account of yoga’s journey from an ancient road to enlightenment to a wellness industry

Nationalist Anthem

The Gandhian way of music

The Legend of Kuttanad

This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them

A Tale of Two Menons

Comparing VK and VP is odious. They made the best of what destiny offered them

The Good Fight

How a woman reclaimed her life from an abusive marriage

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