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Veteran journalist-author Mrinal Pande shares her views on social issues that loom large in the small towns and villages of India through a collection of her reportage in the book, The Other Country. She elaborates her ideas to Biswadip Mitra At times there are questions about whether India knows about Bharat.
Monday, January 30, 2012 AT 05:06 PM (IST)
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Two new anthologies of short stories in the Urban Shots series feature diverse emotions and experiences There are stories all around us in the urban landscape that throws up tales of love, happiness, sorrows, failures, aspirations and lot more every now and then. Urban Shots, an anthology of such stories, was published last year which saw young, writers sharing their works.
Monday, January 30, 2012 AT 05:01 PM (IST)
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Amar Chitra Katha has come up with a new compilation of titles, Nation Builders , to revisit the great figures of the past Among other things that I grew up with was the titles of Amar Chitra Katha.
Monday, January 30, 2012 AT 04:53 PM (IST)
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Aastha Atray , winner of the Passions 2010 contest by Mills and Boon, talks about her book, His Monsoon Bride For someone who was into serious journalism, plunging into the world of romantic novel was unheard of. Yet Aastha Atray managed to break the ice. “I had a bad day at work. After 10 years in the profession, I was bored of the so-called ‘serious’ reporting.
Monday, January 30, 2012 AT 04:46 PM (IST)
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In a country of over 1.21 billion people, a figure of 23 hardly matters. But then they can matter if these 23 people and their associates bring about substantial positive changes in the lives of millions of people in India.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 AT 05:08 PM (IST)
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Death. Much as we know that we are born to die one day, we hope that the “one day” is in someone else’s fate and not ours... and, when we realise that we are living on borrowed time, we lose all our bearings. Death or rather how to deal with death is the premise of Indian diplomat and writer, Pavan Varma’s first fiction, When Loss is Gain which is published by Rain Tree, an imprint of the Rupa Publications.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 AT 04:58 PM (IST)
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What you think has a profound effect on what you do, and how you do it. You can only achieve it when you believe it. If you don’t think you can do it, you never will. Your life experiences determine the way you think. But your thoughts aren’t set in stone. Just like you can learn to ride a bike or play chess, you can also learn to control your thinking and control your life.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 AT 04:51 PM (IST)
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William Gibson is an acclaimed science-fiction writer. His mainstay is the ‘future’ that we are unsure of, yet are always curious about. ‘Future’ is back again in Gibson’s writings, except that this time not as a fiction, but as essays in the collection, Distrust that Particular Flavor. Moreover, Gibson is not predicting ‘future’ here, but he is finding ‘future’ all around us right now.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 AT 04:46 PM (IST)
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Kunal Basu ’s latest novel, The Yellow Emperor’s Cure , is a visual tale of different cultures, love and a young doctor’s mission, set in the historical backdrop of Boxer Rebellion in China. Biswadip Mitra finds out more from the novelist Lisbon 1898.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 AT 04:54 PM (IST)
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The dance form of Bharatanatyam and the late T Balasaraswati are synonymous. This legendary artiste from South India was recognised worldwide for her dance and music. But her life also offers an extraordinary view of the matrilineal devadasi community from which the modern South Indian dance style has emerged. Independent scholar Douglas M Knight Jr provides us with that view in this biography, Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 AT 04:46 PM (IST)
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