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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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A country that allows its craftsmen to die, is going to die soon: Architect Miki Desai




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When Hauz Khas ruins, kund steps and gopuram gateways inspired BV Doshi to design NIFT Delhi




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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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Richa Chadha: ‘I think awareness is sexy’




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WhatsApp Uncle realises that hatred only breeds hatred




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Why governments like to use the sedition law




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Jelili Atiku: “I use my body to make the audience feel pain”




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Families in Food: An eatery in Delhi serves chhole bhature with a secret spice mix




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Why a hawai chappal and instant noodles are exhibited in a Thai museum




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How Ratan Thiyam brought Manipur onto the global stage




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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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Hitesh Kewalya: ‘There is a need to redefine masculinity’




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How Kolkata’s iconic cabin restaurants played a part in the freedom struggle




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




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Why we must not look down on creatures that clear the mess around us




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Building Blocks: How protests in the streets remind us of what we lost as a nation when we gave up our right to the city




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A glimpse into sweet-making, one of country’s oldest professions




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Anju Dodiya: ‘The creative process is a violent one’




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Mrunmayee Lagoo on co-writing Thappad and the female gaze




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Menopause marks the end of something, but it doesn’t mean your life is over




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




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The many joys that songbirds bring




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Designer Rahul Mishra on why fashion has to be “slow” if it is to be sustainable




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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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Geetika Vidya Ohlyan: “How can one not be political in their choices?”




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Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Smriti Mundhra on how she made St Louis Superman




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Social distancing: Time to find enduring ways of being together




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Why the Shaheen Bagh dadis remind me of my grandmothers




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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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What Satyajit Ray’s Ghare Baire tells us about our age of aggressive nationalism




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Why Kolkatans Love Sipping History at Paramount




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Why COVID-19 pandemic may change how we view individual rights




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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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Roberto Benigni: We will always need a fairy tale




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Why JBS Haldane was one of the finest biologists of the 20th century




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Bringing home the holidays




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On the joys of room-travel




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Laura Spinney: ‘We learn from each new outbreak, but not enough’




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




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Remembering Pandit Ravi Shankar’s sublime notes in his centenary year




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Why data has a face and a name in a pandemic




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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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Why the dove speaks softly?