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Perumal Murugan: Down to Earth

Chandrahas Choudhury

Tamil author Perumal Murugan makes his readers partners in the life of the peasant and the possibilities of nature

Where the Mind Is Without Fear

To be a witness, if not a channel for others’ voices

‘I like poetry because I can write about the essence of things,’ says Ali Cobby Eckermann

Aboriginal poet and author Ali Cobby Eckermann records the importance of ritual and recognition

Spectral Symmetry

A poet in his liminal world

The Mystery of Mixed Messages

Enid Blyton’s storytelling as a crash course in patriarchy

First Women

Reimagining Sita and other neglected female characters

Guardians of Democracy

Election commissioners are only answerable to the institution

JLF 2019: Reigning Stars and Falling Trees

Being both an insider and outsider at the Jaipur Literature Festival

Romancing the Distance

Around the world in a literary relay race of sorts

Of Cheeks and Slaps

The conditions under which force may be used against government injustice and what India’s historical experience tells us about resistance

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