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Interview with Sharad Sharma regarding “Rendered Stateless: Not Voiceless” — comics created by Rohingya refugees

Sharad Sharma is a Delhi based cartoonist and comics trainer. More than twenty years ago he started the grassroots comics movement. It has now spread
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Books read during the lockdown, April 2020

14 05 , 2020 No Comments

It is not very easy to read while the lockdown is on but I have managed a wee bit. The following are only some of
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Taslima Nasreen’s “Shameless”

06 05 , 2020 No Comments

In 1993 Taslima Nasreen wrote Lajja ( “Shame”) in Bengali. It was her response to the anti-Hindu riots that had broken out in Bangladesh after
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“A Woven Life” by Jenny Housego

04 05 , 2020 No Comments

Memoirs, autobiographies and biographies are a great introduction to a life. They also share a period through personal stories making history come alive. Memoirs are
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“Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi” by Sudhanva Deshpande

04 05 , 2020 No Comments

Sudhanva Deshpande’s Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi is an account of the left activist Safdar Hashmi who was brutally murdered on
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Interview with translator Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

03 05 , 2020 No Comments

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is a Bengali translator, author, and professor of English and world literature. She lives in Virginia with her husband and plants. She has
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Hilary Mantel and Kate Mosse

03 05 , 2020 No Comments

Historical fiction is always such a joy to read. If deftly created by an author with an informed imagination, then the pleasure of reading big
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Interview with Aditya Iyengar

23 04 , 2020 No Comments

Retelling of Indian mythology by Indian novelists is proving to be quite an interesting exercise as it is allows the modern storyteller to choose and
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Teaching a tiddler how to read English

17 04 , 2020 No Comments

Last year Scholastic India published a marvellous collection of essays on reading. It is called Why I Love to Read: Real Stories about the Joy
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Interview with Gaël Faye on his debut novel “Small Country”