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    A father figure for students, Zakir Hussain liked jokes, had no star tantrums

    Samhati Mohapatra
    16 Dec 2024 1:19 PM IST

    Hussain’s student Swarupa Ananth and fellow artiste Mahesh Vinayakram describe him as a warm, affable person with a wisecrack always up his sleeve

    A father figure for students, Zakir Hussain liked jokes, had no star tantrums
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    Author Kiran Desai on political novels, diaspora, loneliness, and more
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    Author Kiran Desai on political novels, diaspora, loneliness, and more

    15 Dec 2024 6:19 PM IST
    Nobel laureate Ramakrishnan on ‘social’ impact of slowing ageing and a ‘magic pill’
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    Nobel laureate Ramakrishnan on ‘social’ impact of slowing ageing and a ‘magic pill’

    15 Dec 2024 10:53 AM IST
    The Nehru Development Model
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    The Nehru Development Model review: Panagariya indicts a ‘flawed’ economic legacy

    14 Dec 2024 1:50 PM IST
    One Hundred Years of Solitude: Márquez’s magical fever dream limns time, love and memory

    One Hundred Years of Solitude: Márquez’s magical fever dream limns time, love and memory

    13 Dec 2024 8:45 AM IST
    Raj Kapoor

    Raj Kapoor at 100: The showman who held up a mirror to a nation’s hopes and despair

    12 Dec 2024 9:08 AM IST
    Shabana Azmi, Steven Spielberg, Halo, The Federal, English news website

    IFFK inaugural: Shabana Azmi to be guest of honour

    11 Dec 2024 7:09 PM IST
    Palestinian poet-performer Asmaa Azaizeh at the International Theatre Festival of Kerala last year

    Kerala puts International Theatre Festival on hold amid budget crisis, sparks outcry

    11 Dec 2024 8:15 AM IST
    How Dhrupad exponent Mukund Dev Sahoo is reviving Hindustani classical music’s Vedic pulse

    How Dhrupad exponent Mukund Dev Sahoo is reviving Hindustani classical music’s Vedic pulse

    11 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Viktor Frankl

    Genocide Prevention Day: Why Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning matters

    9 Dec 2024 8:45 PM IST
    Imayam

    How Imayam redefined realism in Tamil literature and proved his critics wrong

    9 Dec 2024 4:25 PM IST
    Aakriti Mandhwani

    How middlebrow Hindi magazines mirrored zeitgeist of post-Independence India

    8 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Ministhy S.

    Ministhy S. interview: ‘Malayalam script has pristine originality, poetry and lilting melody’

    7 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Reservation Policy in India review: A long, uneven road to social justice

    Reservation Policy in India review: A long, uneven road to social justice

    6 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
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    Curse of Fengal: Harrowing experience of a visitor in flooded Chennai

    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
    5 Dec 2024 11:09 AM IST

    It was perplexing that in a state capital that periodically gets battered by cyclones, there was little preparation for the impending crisis

    The Book of Exodus by V. J. James

    V. J. James interview: ‘Literature must forewarn about consequences of human actions’

    5 Dec 2024 9:10 AM IST
    Golwalkar

    Golwalkar review: Biography decodes the life and ideology that fueled Hindutva’s ascent

    4 Dec 2024 3:50 PM IST
    Susan Abulhawa

    Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa: ‘Zionism is a system of ethnic cleansing’

    3 Dec 2024 7:10 PM IST
    Shah Rukh Khan: Legend, Icon, Star by by Mohar Basu, HarperCollins India, pp. 308, Rs 559

    Shah Rukh Khan: Legend, Icon, Star review: Biography dives into the making of a demigod

    3 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism by Ramachandra Guha

    Speaking with Nature review: Ramachandra Guha traces roots of Indian environmental thought

    2 Dec 2024 2:40 PM IST
    Lesia Diak

    Ukrainian director Lesia Diak interview: ‘We’re all on trial; war testing our humanity’

    30 Nov 2024 6:30 AM IST
    The Room Next Door-IFFI

    IFFI diary, the conclusion: Stories of displacement, alienation, working-class shine

    29 Nov 2024 1:10 PM IST
    A view from Bengalurus Basavanagudi market. Avarekai has started arriving to the city, bit delayed. The Federal Photos

    Avarebele Mela 2025: Bengaluru's unique beans festival turns 25

    28 Nov 2024 6:41 PM IST
    Book excerpt: How Prabhakaran’s obsession with power destroyed the LTTE

    Book excerpt: How Prabhakaran’s obsession with power destroyed the LTTE

    27 Nov 2024 4:05 PM IST
    Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 million banana

    Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 mn taped banana unpeels the art world’s rot

    26 Nov 2024 6:30 AM IST
    Books signed by Gandhi, Tagore; some 200 years old: Bengaluru store boasts rare gems

    Books signed by Gandhi, Tagore; some 200 years old: Bengaluru store boasts rare gems

    25 Nov 2024 6:03 PM IST
    Ramachandra Guha interview: No govt ever consults environmentalists | Interview

    Ramachandra Guha interview: 'No govt ever consults environmentalists' | Interview

    25 Nov 2024 4:18 PM IST
    Muzaffar Ali

    Muzaffar Ali interview: ‘I’ve always admired the free spirit, indigenous traits of horses’

    25 Nov 2024 2:00 PM IST
    Upamanyu Chatterjee-JCB Prize

    Upamanyu Chatterjee wins JCB Prize for Literature 2024 for Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life

    24 Nov 2024 12:30 AM IST
    Vishy Ayyar-American Warrior

    Vishy Ayyar interview: American Warrior actor on playing an MMA fighter in immigrant drama

    23 Nov 2024 1:50 PM IST
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