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Anoushka Shankar: ‘I look inwards a lot more than I used to’




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Speakeasy: How coronavirus-like outbreaks have shaped human history




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Forwarded as Received: Jolly over AAP winning Delhi? It’s a folly




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Why a red-light street in Germany’s Hamburg, remains forbidden for women and hidden from tourists




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Inside the wondrous world of writer Vinod Kumar Shukla




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Bon Appetit: A home-made drink that can give colas a run for their money




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Three children’s books that talk about how to engage with the larger world




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For her debut novel, Deepa Anappara takes on the task of writing about poverty in a child’s voice




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Painting the Rainbow: The gift cousins nurture for each other




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Wendell’s Goa: How a sleepy village fell in love with a gay ‘ladies tailor’




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Taapsee Pannu: ‘We are wary of upsetting the order’




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Bean-to-cup coffee making in a Coorg plantation




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Rahul Mehrotra: ‘Every emperor made a New Delhi’




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Ann Cleeves: “I couldn’t work what would happen next, unless I killed somebody off”




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Award-winning poet and playwright Lemn Sissay on his lost childhood and a life unmoored




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How algorithm fuels misinformation mills around coronavirus




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Justice Richard H Bernstein on how people with disabilities make for good judges




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Inside the fast, furious and sometimes feudal world of kambala




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Writer and former IPS officer Vibhuti Narain Rai on the anatomy of riots




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When a banking-sector crisis hits, even the most devoted patriots are hurt




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The quaint charms of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort




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How Mizoram fell in love with Korean pop culture




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Why young Marathi director Suraj Parasnis’ plays are drawing the young to the theatre




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Why does Lake Tahoe in California, US, never freeze?




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Isolation Words: Pandemics are the petri-dish for fiction




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How COVID-19 makes us reimagine our workspaces and the way we work




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Dibakar Banerjee: ‘You can’t walk into the world of filmmaking with a fragile heart’




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Why Kolkatans Love Sipping History at Paramount




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When Tagore accused Gandhi of superstition




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Cyrus Mistry: ‘Our lives are more deceitful than we admit’




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Swedish writer Zac O’Yeah, who made India his home decades ago, wonders if this is the end of the road for wanderlust




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Viral Trap: Remembering the human stories behind the coronavirus news




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What to read to counter viral pseudo-scientific information?




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Love in the Time of Corona




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ZeeZee Warriors




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What is a writer’s role in an anxiety-ridden world?




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Why the threat of a virus appears distant and delusional in our interconnected world and how it isn’t




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Is history repeating itself?




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How a virus laid low one of the world’s most formidable athletes




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How an Indian immigrant in the US grieves over a rapidly-changing world




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A list of recommendations for the young ‘uns, this week on illustrated books on COVID-19




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What life lessons being stuck indoors ad nauseam can teach




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A Recipe for Disaster




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How publishing for children in India is coping with the crisis generated by COVID-19




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The mirror crack’d from side to side



  • Books and Literature

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Naseeruddin Shah: ‘Irrfan’s legacy is like a constellation of stars for every actor to take inspiration from’




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Change will be the only constant in the post-COVID-19 world




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How cooking for herself changed one home cook’s outlook on food




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How will we tell the story of COVID-19?




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‘Life comes first’: Indian athletes support Olympic postponement