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In His Footsteps
Maitreyee B. Choudhury reflects on Banaphool’s craft of storytelling
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Writers & “Truth Regimes”
Cheriyan Alexander writes about intolerant regimes that hound writers/artists from time to time and on the role of scriptures in the history of religious intolerance.
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Camus’ Centenary: The Algerian Question
Part of series on Albert Camus, coinciding with his birth centenary celebrations.
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Alice Munro: In the Footsteps of Chekhov
Arul Gaspar studies the works of 2013 Nobel prize winning writer, Alice Munro, in relation to the works of master storyteller, Anton Chekhov.
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Camus’ Centenary: The Eternal Rebel
Part of series on Albert Camus, coinciding with his birth centenary celebrations.
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Bearing Witness to History: Czeslaw Milosz
Cheriyan Alexander writes on East-European poetry, with focus on Czeslaw Milosz and Vasko Popa.
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Why Maya Angelou
Arul Gaspar elucidates on Maya Angelou and her writing
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Shakespeare of Rajasthan
Mohit Parikh throws light on the works of Vijaydan Detha, also known as the Shakespeare of Rajasthan.
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The Wrong Kind of Dogs
Manjiri Indurkar reflects upon her reading of Adil Jussawala’s latest collection, The Right Kind of Dog
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The Limitless Instant
Lakshmi Gopal explores the language, philosophy and genius of noted Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
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An Appreciation of "The Raven"
Abhirup Bangara reads through the meanings of Edgar Allan Poe’s tragic and supernatural poem, The Raven.
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Proust and Art
Sudeep Reguna discusses the interpretation of art as seen through Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”
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James Joyce’s Bildungsroman
Arvind Radhakrishnan looks into “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, the novel that changed him, “perhaps forever”
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Flaubert and the Craft of the Novel
Arvind Radhakrishnan explores the craft of writing through his observations of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
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Lessons of the Masters
Sudeep Reguna studies the works of two great writers in his pursuit to understand a society and its culture.