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Meghalayan village life, comes alive on Triebor Mawlong’s woodcuts

By Siddhi Jain Jan 13, 2021 New Delhi:  Visualising how the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing affected the social map of Mawbri, a small matriarchal Meghalayan village, an intricate woodcut titled ‘Circles’ presents an intriguing…

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Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ among 2020’s most borrowed titles

Jan 11, 2021 New Delhi:  ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama and ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ by Delia Owens were among the most popular ebooks borrowed from libraries in 2020, recent data shows. Data by OverDrive, the…

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No home yet for Mirza Ghalib in Agra, his birthplace

By Brij Khandelwal Dec 28, 2020 Agra: The Taj city’s poetry lovers and literati on Sunday paid glowing tributes to Mirza Ghalib, the doyen of the Urdu literature, on his birth anniversary, even as big…

Renowned Urdu writer and critic Shamsur Rahman Faruqi no more

Dec 25, 2020 New Delhi: literary giant Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passed away in Allahabad on Friday morning. The writer and theorist had tested positive for Corona-19 in November, though he was discharged from a Delhi…

Noted poet, scholar and film producer Mahmood Jamal passes away in London

Dec 24, 2020 London: Noted poet, scholar and film producer Mahmood Jamal passed away in London last night following Covid complications. He had been hospitalised a few days back and was admitted in the ICU…

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Devika Rani was an enigma to most – but not anymore

By Vishnu Makhijani Dec 23, 2020 New Delhi: “I hope that I have managed to establish who Devika Rani really was. A rebellious and unusually talented and beautiful woman, a great actress and studio head…

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‘Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story’ a richly layered account of a troubled genius

Dec 19, 2020 New Delhi: Guru Dutt’s filmography has some names which have long been considered as some of the best films to have ever been made in India. His masterpiece “Pyaasa” (1957) was featured…

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Now, this number does not exist

By Sukant Deepak Dec 11, 2020 New Delhi: This number does not exist. Wherever I go whichever number I dial At the other end a strange voice says This number does not exist yeh number…

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Amit Ahuja, Jairam Ramesh joint winners of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020

Dec 10, 2020 Bengaluru: Amit Ahuja, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh were on Thursday declared the joint winners of the Rs. 15…

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In search of ‘the last poet’

Dec 9, 2020 New Delhi: He constantly looks for possibilities in which artists and audiences can gather and tries to see the relational aesthetics between them. How can they change, how can an alternate reality…

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