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JLF 2017: Wordscapes

Nandini Nair

We present the faces that launched a million stories from the JLF 2017's tenth edition. Photographs by Rohit Chawla

In Search of the True Bengali

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

The persistence of an identity dispute

From Chennai with Love

Diya Kohli

Goddesses and divas populate this first fiction

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

Madhavankutty Pillai

When poets translate each other

In Good Company

Suman Tarafdar

Attending the English classes at Cambridge

City Lights

V Shoba

Has culture lost its place in Bangalore?

Alone and Away

Urvashi Butalia

Taslima Nasrin’s unending search for home

Who Will Win the Booker?

Nandini Nair

With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.

Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again

Shreevatsa Nevatia

He is one of the greatest novelists of his time, but his late novels take him to a grim elsewhere, baffling his devotees

A Poetic High

Neha M

Spoken-word poetry is gaining a festive momentum in India

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JLF 2017: Wordscapes

In Search of the True Bengali

From Chennai with Love

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

In Good Company

City Lights

Alone and Away

Who Will Win the Booker?

Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again

A Poetic High

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