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    The Land and the Shadows review: Perumal Murugan’s loving, unsparing history of Tamil cinema

    Aditya Mani Jha
    9 May 2026 6:30 AM IST

    In The Land and the Shadows, Perumal Murugan turns cinema into a prism through which caste, class, desire, morality and memory are refracted; it’s a rich, personal portrait of Tamil film culture

    Perumal Murugan
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    Sir David Attenborough and the limits of his witness statement
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    Attenborough sees the wound but misses who wielded the knife

    8 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Austrian Chef Philipp Dyczek
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    How Austrian Chef Philipp Dyczek brought the Michelin-starred taste of Graz to Delhi

    5 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
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    How zip-coding has become the latest dating trend among the urban youth

    1 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
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    How Bhopal’s begums patronised batua and zari zardozi embroidery, empowering women

    29 April 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Campaigning in Sikkim

    Sikkim statehood at 50: How the Himalayan kingdom became an Indian state

    28 April 2026 4:10 PM IST
    Srinivasa Ramanujan

    How Srinivasa Ramanujan transformed mathematics, and left the world wondering how he did it

    26 April 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Book Video

    Migrant exodus during COVID-19 pandemic was a failure of the state I Jyoti Yadav interview

    25 April 2026 3:25 PM IST
    Mario Miranda

    Mario Miranda at 100: How the legendary cartoonist captured India’s social, political pulse

    25 April 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Haruki Murakami-The Tale of Kaho

    How Haruki Murakami came to write his first woman-led novel, The Tale of Kaho

    24 April 2026 7:06 PM IST
    Dakhni

    How Dakhni declined as Deccan court language, became a vernacular after Mughal conquest

    23 April 2026 12:55 PM IST
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    World Book and Copyright Day: Why translators need equal billing with authors

    22 April 2026 7:33 PM IST
    Babban Khan

    Babban Khan obit: Creator of Adrak Ke Panje, custodian of Dakhani wit and humour

    20 April 2026 6:41 PM IST
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    How India’s East Coast and Eastern Ghats are losing their rich biodiversity rapidly

    20 April 2026 10:34 AM IST
    Why all Indians owe Dr Ambedkar something

    Why all Indians, irrespective of caste, owe BR Ambedkar something

    Nawaid Anjum
    14 April 2026 3:22 PM IST

    On Ambedkar Jayanti (April 14), revisiting the story of the architect of Indian Constitution (the doctrine that governs the world’s largest democracy)...

    Asha Bhosle

    How Asha Bhosle overcame early setbacks to become a legend of Hindi film music

    13 April 2026 12:52 PM IST
    Asha Bhosle obit - her voice was her identity

    Asha Bhosle obit: The unstoppable voice of Hindi playback singing that refused to be typecast

    12 April 2026 5:49 PM IST
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    Karan Dhanelia, World Class Bartender of the Year 2026, on his cocktail experiments

    12 April 2026 8:49 AM IST
    How an ordinary morning in Imphal snowballed into the Manipur inferno

    How an ordinary morning in Imphal snowballed into the Manipur inferno

    10 April 2026 6:30 AM IST
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    Tusker Gajendra, the pride of Mysuru Dasara, faces a lonely twilight at 63

    4 April 2026 2:10 PM IST
    2026 International Booker Prize

    International Booker Prize shortlist: Six novels of exile, resistance and human defiance

    2 April 2026 3:54 PM IST
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    Lego Trump, Chibi-style short, Teletubbies: How Iran is using memes as a weapon

    2 April 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Arundhati Roy

    Mother Mary Comes to Me: How Arundhati Roy’s mother made and unmade her

    29 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Why a building in Vietnam, said to have links with Subhas Chandra Bose, lies ‘dilapidated, neglected’

    Why a building in Vietnam, said to have links with Subhas Chandra Bose, lies ‘dilapidated, neglected’

    19 March 2026 7:59 AM IST
    Sahitya Akademi winner S Tamilselvan

    Creative freedom is under threat in this country: Sahitya Akademi winner S Tamilselvan

    18 March 2026 1:04 PM IST
    Monkey Punch: The manga legend who gave viral Japanese macaque a name

    Monkey Punch: The manga legend who gave viral Japanese macaque a name

    15 March 2026 11:24 AM IST
    Iran women novels

    How two women writers portray Iran in International Booker Prize-longlisted novels

    10 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Taapsee Pannu interview: ‘If women lose vulnerability, they stop growing as human beings’

    Taapsee Pannu interview: ‘If women lose vulnerability, they stop growing as human beings’

    8 March 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Protests and unrest Iran streets

    ‘Martyr’ or ‘tyrant’: How world’s major media outlets see Khamenei’s killing

    4 March 2026 2:20 PM IST
    Author Raghavan Srinivasan portrait

    Raghavan Srinivasan on how Tamil saints led India’s first spiritual rebellion, Bhakti Movement

    3 March 2026 4:59 PM IST
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