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The great Marathi writer Urmila is known for her frank and direct style of writing, which reflects her own experiences of the myriad difficulties of being a woman and that,…
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Synaptic Narratives and Half-Bodied Women: Poetics and Practice of Vilas Sarang’s avant-garde writing
October 29, 2019 Read More...(Previously published in Journal of Higher Education and Research Society: A Refereed International Journal, Vol 4 Issue I, ISSN: 2349-0209, April 2016, 97-107) ‘Literary creation is pre-eminently a synaptic activity’,…
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Source : The Indian Express The author Annabel Steadman, who writes as AF Steadman, has been paid seven-figure sum by Simon & Schuster for a fantasy series about “bloodthirsty unicorns”…
Understanding Satyajit Ray Through The Prism Of His Writings
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GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM GETS REVAMPED FOR ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY
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Wildfires Taking Toll on Booksellers, Publishers
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Why Goodreads is bad for books
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Macmillan C.E.O. John Sargent Is Departing
Source : The New York Times The longtime publishing executive is leaving the company, which has faced months of turmoil, because of disagreements over its direction. John Sargent, Macmillan’s longtime…
Missing an ingredient
Source : India Today Those delicious letters is a light, frothy read that falls short of being something more Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta’s second book, Those Delicious Letters, revolves around food,…
Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ nominated for National Book Award
Source : The Hindu Winners will be announced on November 18. Two of the summer’s most talked about novels, Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Megha Majumdar’s A Burning, are on the National…
Diary of an MP’s Wife by Sasha Swire review – a thrillingly indiscreet political memoir
Source : The Guardian From Dominic Cummings as an ‘amoeba’ to royal political preferences and David Cameron’s colonoscopy … a behind-the-scenes Tory reveals the political gossip We have come a…
HT Picks: New Reads
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Barack Obama’s memoir ‘A Promised Land’ coming out in November
Source : The Hindu First volume of the memoir will be released two weeks after U.S. elections Former U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday announced the publication in November of…
Translation is far more difficult than writing: Bhawana Somaaya
Source : The New Indian Express Bhawana Somaaya has been documenting famous lives for decades now, but her newest project has her translating the words of the most important man…
Art scholar-author Kapila Vatsyayan no more
Source : Times of India With an insurmountable amount of research in the fields of arts, culture and civilisation to her credit, Kapila Vatsyayan epitomised being a “scholar” like…
JK Rowling clears rumours, says villain who wears women’s clothes in new novel is based on real life characters
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Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house
Source : B B C About 200 “irreplaceable” books worth more than £2.5m ($3.2m), which were stolen from a warehouse in London, have been found buried under the floor…
Here Are The 50 Books Nominated for 2020 National Book Awards
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Thus Spake…
The biggest challenges faced by poetry today is the challenge of freedom. No way of writing is sacrosanct. The challenge lies in remaining true to yourself and create something original, rather than to contrive, a practice that is usually seen in contemporary poems,
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