1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (19+ words) Nicolas Eyer’s new book *When the Mask Falls*, or On the Art of Revealing Pomona - Das Wallis im Hosensack...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago   (330+ words) Deccan Chronicle Wendy Doniger’s 1998 title, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth, is rooted in a conversation between two anthropologists American anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously invokes the image of ‘webs of significance’: the interconnected meanings through which…...

13+ hour, 7+ min ago   (351+ words) By A Staff Reporter, Kathmandu, Sept. 13: A bilingual Nepali-Russian poetry collection featuring contemporary Nepali and Russian women poets and focusing on the themes of motherland and love has been published. The book, titled Modern Women’s Poetry from Russia and Nepal…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (348+ words) Bengal is one of the few states in India that has endorsed and supported small-scale magazines, bringing forth literary talents from every corner of society, and Kolkata has remained the heart of the ‘little magazine’ movement, famous for independent, alternative…...

4+ hour, 59+ min ago   (560+ words) In the summer of 2017, while walking along a sea-facing boulevard in Mumbai, Zeenath Khan began imagining a novel set against one of the most dramatic episodes in Hyderabad's history. India's 1948 military takeover of the princely state, she felt, had everything…...

4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (261+ words) So we have a mismatched couple, from families torn by Partition and big Bombay dreams of the film industry. A room in an apartment divided up between three and then four families, with shared bathrooms and kitchen, but so desirable…...

10+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1463+ words) I am standing in an anonymous room in the James Hardiman Library at the University of Galway, where Barry Houlihan, the institution’s archivist, has brought some boxes from storage downstairs. Back in 2003 McGahern engaged in an act of what was,…...

12+ hour, 38+ min ago   (345+ words) In today’s Nigeria, the past seems to have suddenly come roaring back at us with a rampaging urgency and untidy vengeance. The “ restless past” has come alive as a dimension of time with historical urgency. Rightfully, the most topical memoirs…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago   (480+ words) By YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM Dame Barbara Cartland with her white Rolls Royce It’s a brave man to take the ‘profoundly neglected’ Barbara seriously, to find artistry and merit in the balderdash – all these stories about virgins searching for husbands and…...

11+ hour, 53+ min ago   (381+ words) Pune, 13th September 2026: The historical and cultural connections between Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Pune and Maharashtra were explored at a cultural symposium organised by the Deccan College Art Circle in collaboration with the Upasana Global Forum. Titled “Tagore in Pune: Exploring…...