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A Magical Review: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child hit the bookstores on 31st July, 2016 and it has been causing an insane amount of excitement across..
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Mahasweta Devi: Writing as Protest
Embed from Getty Images When I first read Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi, it created a minor explosion in my ‘reading’ life. The theme and starkness..
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In the middle of Crime and Punishment Dovstojesky – otherwise sticking tight to his characters from beginning to end – takes a brisk leap back:…
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One knows by comparison and sometimes, as in Blake, through contraries. It is evident in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience and less…
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Walter Benjamin, Or How the Essay Should Be
Atharva Pandit studies Walter Benjamin’s art of essay
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Saadat Hasan Manto – A Retrospective
Maitreyee ponders over Manto’s writings
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Colonial India and Genealogy At Sea
Akhil Katyal explores how Amitav Ghosh plays with the concept of genealogy to give us an intricate history of colonialism in his 2008 novel ‘Sea of Poppies’.
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The Apocalypse
Atharva Pandit explores the works of the great Hungarian writer, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
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The Great Contrarian
Akshay Sreevatsa ponders over Christopher Hitchens and his book, Letters to a Young Contrarian
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To Wait and Not See Nothing
Atharva Panditon writes on Tor Ulven, the modernist Norwegian poet who has commanded respect and considerable influence over contemporary Norwegian poetry, and yet, hitherto remains largely unknown in English-language literature.
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The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy
A re-run of the interview with U R Ananthamurthy from the July issue.
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Nadine Gordimer: A Tribute
Arul Gaspar pays tribute to the late writer, Nadine Gordimer, who was an agent for political and social commitment
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Whose Real is it Anyway?
Tanuj Solanki responds to Amitava Kumar’s article, “The Shiver of the Real” from May 2014 issue of The Caravan
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The Inner World of U. R. Ananthamurthy
Arvind Radhakrishnan & Sudeep Reguna interviews noted writer and Jnanpith winner, Prof. U. R. Ananthamurthy
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On Reading in Bed
Robert Boucheron refers to essays of Montaigne while on the subject of reading
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Tribute to a Phenomenal Woman
The Bangalore Review pays tribute to Maya Angelou
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Revisiting Premier’s Mr. Shanbhag
Arvind Radhakrishnan & Suhail Rasheed catches up with T S Shanbhag, the owner of Premier Book Shop, for a candid chat
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Of Books and the Reading Life
Cheriyan Alexander’s recollection from a personal journey of reading and collecting books
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More Real, than Magical
#94616965 / gettyimages.com The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on 17th April, 2014. Through his One Hundred Years of Solitude,…
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Updike & Down Gorge
Let’s face it, we love this materialism we’re wrapped up into: the word has given ‘imitation’ a new meaning, allowing it to acquire additional shades…
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Nothing is Ever Really Lost
Eudora Welty’s life and work share a fascination with memory and time. “Of course the greatest confluence of all,” Welty writes in her memoir One…
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An Extraordinary Life
Soumitra Dasgupta pays tribute to Khushwant Singh
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The Desire of the Hysteric
Tanuj Solanki attempts a psychoanalytic reading of Roberto Bolano’s Amulet.
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The Golden Treasury
Robert Boucheron takes the reader down memory lane to another peek into the trove of poetry, The Golden Treasury