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A History of Healing

Madhavankutty Pillai

With over 12,000 oral histories, the 1947 partition archive is using storytelling to mend the scars of one of the most traumatic episodes that the subcontinent experienced

Eating with Honour

Mr Tikku and the soul food of storytelling

An Unequal Text

Time for an Indian cultural renaissance

Nagesh Kukunoor: The Lone Traveller

Filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor captures Hyderabad’s unique culture in an anthology of love stories

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

Kali Meets Loki

Emily Hennessey brings together myths from across the world to spin a compelling yarn

Lijo Jose Pellissery: ‘I make films. I don’t make moral lessons’

Malayalam filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery is one of India’s most original auteurs

Ruskin Bond: Man on the Hill

India’s most beloved writer remembers

And Then There Were None

Four storytellers redeem the modern whodunnit by defying the familiar props of the genre

Ashokamitran (1931-2017): A Precise Storyteller

Truth is not stranger than fiction in the world of Ashokamitran (1931-2017)

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