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We are not alone - at least, not our facesThe author shared their unusual talent for spotting doppelgangers, noting resemblances between famous personalities like Jack Palance and S...
Major blow, will set bad precedent: Heritage experts on SC nod to raze Patna Collectorate complexBulldozers knocked down the front columns of the 1938-built District Board Patna building in the Patna Collectorate campus on Saturday, a d...
The 'Gully Boy' effect: Bangalore Poetry Festival to feature a session on rap music'Gully Boy' affable MC Sher, Siddhant Charutvedi, will kick off the festival.
5 years on, TMC's brain bank takes a beatingTMC may have failed to co-opt Leftist intellectuals but there's a new crop of young thinkers on social media who enthusiastically support M...
Calcutta is a city not being able to find its feet: Amit Chaudhuri, WriterAmit Chaudhuri, who grew up in Mumbai and Kolkata, runs a campaign to preserve the eclectic neighbourhoods of his home town.
Mamata Banerjee’s politics may be indigestible to aesthete but delightful to multitudesWhen Mamata takes out a rally men, women and children throng the roads to get a glimpse of her as she walks smiling and waving at the horde...
Rohan Murty to launch second set of classical booksAfter the success of the first edition, the Murty Classical Library of India will launch the second set of books by the end of the month.
Mark Tully stresses on translation of books from regional languagesMark Tully has stressed on the need for more and more writings in regional languages to be translated into English saying there is lot to b...
New laws needed to save European-Bengali architecture in Kolkata: Amit ChaudhuryDescribing the unique architectural features of these old buildings, he said that they had slanted green windows, frontal porch and perfora...
- Granta comes out with special India issue
UK's popular magazine Granta has come out with a special issue on India featuring writings of the likes of Upamanyu Chatterjee, Amit Chaudh...
Books: Top authors' top reads in 2014Amit Chaudhuri, who is also an acclaimed musician and a professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, named four b...
Pakistan author Bilal Tanweer wins 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book PrizeA Pakistan-based author has won the 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, which is awarded to encourage authors from the subcontinent.
Author Amit Chaudhari explores urban spaces in new novel"I am interested in the ordinary. And I am interested in magic. For me the magic in this novel begins with the title itself," Chaudhuri sai...
Book explores writings of eight Indian authorsWritings of eight Indian authors in English, their potrayal of modern India and what their works suggest about the country form the crux of...
- The American Library in Kolkata: A space open to all, says US Consulate General
The newly designed American Center continues the tradition that is associated with the American Library and Lincoln Room in Kolkata, by tra...
Sunday ET: Can India's youth be a little contrarian please?Youth is the precise republic where democracy in India is becoming a process of being bludgeoned by the majority.