Anamika Haksar’s new film is a treatise of seven years’ long ethnographic fieldwork on the hardscrabble worlds of the disadvantaged in the winding alleys of Old Delhi
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As most of the aggressors named and shamed in #MeToo remain unscathed, the women’s battles are far from over even though the social media-generated movement created unprecedented solidarity among women against their sexual predators.
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The International Booker Prize for Geetanjali Shree's Ret Samadhi put the spotlight on literature and translations, but for publishers, they often fail to even provide the necessary breathing space to stay afloat. For a majority of publishing houses, both indie and big, translation work has to be subsidised.
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Urdu publishing stares at a bleak present—of poor quality paper, printing, binding, packaging and no marketing. But most of all, it craves for readers.
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Bad djinns may offer fodder for films, but it was through the help of good djinns that the author saw aflatoons produced from thin air
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Media is the fourth pillar of democracy, along with executive, legislative and judiciary. But, in the post-truth era of embedded journalism, newspapers have cast aside objectivity to reveal their communal bias. It is evident in the Hindi newspapers’ coverage of the Gyanvapi controversy.
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The famous temple in Gorakhpur is widely seen as a ‘power centre’ but priests and all those associated with it insist they have nothing to do with politics.
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This election season, mouthpieces of specific groups are working overtime to drum up support for different ideologies or vote banks
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Author Amitava Kumar on the importance of keeping a journal, juggling words with drawings, and writing fiction in the time of fake news
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Fiction writers turn their gaze to the state of the planet in their stories about wildfires, melting Arctic ice, cyclones and other indicators of global warming.
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