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    The Jaipur Literature Festival-2022 ends on March 14, Monday. (Photo: facebook)Opinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | Festival of ideas

    Big minds jousted spiritedly on JLF-2022’s hybrid arena

    12 March 2022 2:25 AM IST

    Cover image of the book The Rossogolla Murders by Debeshi Gooptu. (Twitter)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Murders, served with dollops of laughter

    Dolly is suspected of one of the murders and it is up to Mini to don the sleuth’s hat and clear her friend’s name

    20 Feb 2022 3:30 AM IST

    John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee By Amit Ranjan. (Amazon Photo)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Discovering the Oz author who was lawyer for Rani of...

    In his short life of 48 years, John Lang produced 23 novels, one travelogue, some plays and five volumes of poetry

    20 Nov 2021 7:48 PM IST

    Cover page of Banaras: of Gods, Humans and StoriesLifestyle
    Book review | Two exquisite odes to a pair of ancient cities

    Part-history, part-travelogue and part-reportage, Biswas and Nabi's extensive work traces the evolution of Shiva's home...

    10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM IST

    Coverpage of Mahanadi By Anita Agnihotri.Lifestyle
    Book Review | A great river's stories that inquire, inform

    A classic example of realist eco-fiction, it effortlessly straddles the domains of geography, sociology, cultural...

    25 Sept 2021 11:33 PM IST

    Marzia Babakarkhail.Featured
    ‘Afghanistan has changed, women will fight back’

    Marzia Babakarkhail has zero regrets for taking on the Taliban and is planning her return

    27 Aug 2021 12:55 AM IST

    The release of the book is perfectly timed to coincide with the month of the birth anniversary of Ganguly (July 18), the first female doctor to practise in India, and the International Doctors Day (July 1). (Image: Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Clear-eyed and engrossing look back at six Indian...

    To her credit, Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine steers clear of...

    1 Aug 2021 1:05 AM IST

    New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard.Sports
    The Laurel Hubbard controversy: Transwomen vs women in sport

    Should transwomen compete with women? Should intersex sport be a separate category?

    10 July 2021 11:38 AM IST

    Cover photo of Between Freedom and Unfreedom: The Press in Independent India by V. Krishna AnanthLifestyle
    Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

    For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media

    4 July 2021 3:28 AM IST

    A COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara, in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus

    Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh...

    25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Until a generation ago, there were two kinds of Muslims in India, the Communists and the conformists, Wahab says. DC ImageLifestyle
    Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam's heterodox...

    The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with...

    11 April 2021 8:43 AM IST

    Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)Lifestyle
    Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel

    It's not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas

    28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

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