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“Popular” History

Swapan Dasgupta

There is a thriving market in history books

Hay Notebook

Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Alexander McCall Smith and Philip Pullman at their best

Mumbai Notebook

AC Grayling’s talk on God at the Mumbai International Literary Festival

How My Conscience Was Abducted in Dantewada

In the garb of social responsibility, the Essar Group recently organised a storytelling festival for the ‘benefit’ of children in this Maoist-dense area. Apart from the organisers’ poorly disguised disdain for local artistes, what emerged most starkly was the stench of corporate propaganda

Why Litfests Matter

They may be a dime a dozen these days. But writers can benefit immensely from these interactions

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