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Old literary mystery sparks Perth writer’s novel

Violence, madness and a whirlwind wedding

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Can we separate the art from the artist? Sexual abuse allegations against Nagarjun revive the old debate

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…

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Shashi Tharoor’s book on Modi is a wasted opportunity

A sense of history can easily be the casualty in times when tweets running out of characters make way for newspaper op-eds, and books emerge from op-eds running out of space. Any exercise in sizing up our times and its key figures has to tame a few disadvantages if it…

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The new Babu in an exam-loving nation

There is an interesting conversation at the beginning of 1988 classic English, August, the debut novel by 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee. The novel begins with a chat in a car between young IAS probationer Agastya Sen and his Yale-alumnus friend Dhrubo.

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A review of NL Hafta by Rajkumar, Prakash, Rajeev and Harsh

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India is not Rahul Gandhi’s upset wife

In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line:

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Here’s what to read this summer

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Reporting in Kashmir: No woman’s land

Author-journalist Elizabeth Becker had once remarked on the few women who had covered the Vietnam War: “Female reporters covered that war, rewriting the rules so that the phrase ‘woman war correspondent’ would never again be an oxymoron.”

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Manu Joseph scores a third ton with Miss Laila

After successfully avoiding the curse of the second novel that impressive debutant novelists dread, the only question that journalist Manu Joseph’s third novel had to answer was something that haunts a batsman in top form. Will the law of averages finally catch up? No, it hasn’t. Joseph’s Miss Laila Armed and…

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Rab C Nesbitt star, actor Martin Jarvis and presenter Loyd Grossman coming to Ayrshire

Trio will headline Dumfries House's festival of biography and memoir

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