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    Nawaid Anjum
    About the AuthorNawaid Anjum
    Nawaid Anjum is the Features Editor at The Federal. He can be reached at [email protected]
    Tina Turner
    Features

    Tina Turner: How a quiet country girl from Nutbush became the Queen of Rock and Roll

    26 May 2023 3:15 AM IST
    Georgi Gospodinov-Angela Rodel
    Features

    International Booker Prize winner Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov’s kaleidoscope of history

    25 May 2023 12:00 PM IST
    2023 International Booker Prize shortlist
    Features

    2023 International Booker Prize: A glimpse into the six novels on the shortlist

    23 May 2023 11:01 PM IST
    Nandini Krishnan-Ponniyin Selvan
    Features

    ‘First Flood’: Nandini Krishnan on translating Kalki’s Tamil magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan

    21 May 2023 5:00 PM IST
    Ruskin Bond
    Features

    Ruskin Bond: How India’s master storyteller defies age and lives life to the fullest

    19 May 2023 9:06 PM IST
    Six Indian women writers
    Features

    Six Indian women fiction writers who explore the complexities of motherhood

    15 May 2023 12:00 PM IST
    UR Ananthamurthy was as much a thinker as a storyteller: Chandan Gowda and N. Manu Chakravarthy
    Interviews

    UR Ananthamurthy was as much a thinker as a storyteller: Chandan Gowda and N. Manu Chakravarthy

    12 May 2023 10:05 PM IST
    Pico Iyer broadens the idea of paradise, shows we are all bound up in our humanity
    Features

    Pico Iyer broadens the idea of paradise, shows we are all bound up in our humanity

    7 May 2023 12:00 PM IST
    David Baldacci
    Features

    David Baldacci interview: ‘Writing has always been an addiction, not a means of earning’

    6 May 2023 12:00 PM IST
    UR Ananthamurthy
    Features

    Why Kannada writer UR Ananthamurthy did not want to live in Modi-ruled India

    4 May 2023 12:00 PM IST
    May Day 2023: How Urdu poetry highlights the struggles of working-class
    Features

    May Day 2023: How Urdu poetry highlights the struggles of working-class

    2 May 2023 1:54 AM IST
    Defeating the Dictators: Charles Dunst on the roadmap to reform democracies
    Features

    Defeating the Dictators: Charles Dunst on the roadmap to reform democracies

    29 April 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Harry Belafonte: How the singer-activist harvested his anger at being poor
    Features

    Harry Belafonte: How the singer-activist harvested his anger at being poor

    27 April 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Democracy shouldn’t be sacrificed for economic growth: Author Charles Dunst
    Videos

    Democracy shouldn’t be sacrificed for economic growth: Author Charles Dunst

    26 April 2023 7:46 PM IST
    How International Booker Prize spotlights world’s under-represented languages
    Features

    How International Booker Prize spotlights world’s under-represented languages

    25 April 2023 2:22 PM IST
    Murakami’s latest novel has walls as metaphor for physical, emotional barriers
    Features

    Murakami’s latest novel has walls as metaphor for physical, emotional barriers

    22 April 2023 6:30 AM IST
    What ho! With PG Wodehouse’s sensitivity makeover, we’ve gone too far in censoring classics
    Features

    What ho! With PG Wodehouse’s sensitivity makeover, we’ve gone too far in censoring classics

    19 April 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Sarjun KM interview: Burqa sprang from real-life experience, not against purdah
    Entertainment

    Sarjun KM interview: 'Burqa' sprang from real-life experience, not against purdah

    13 April 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Jeyamohan interview: Ezhaam Ulagam, or The Abyss, is a spiritual inquiry into beggars’ lives
    Features

    Jeyamohan interview: Ezhaam Ulagam, or The Abyss, is a spiritual inquiry into beggars’ lives

    11 April 2023 2:45 PM IST
    How Wajida Tabassum explored desire, debauchery of Hyderabad’s aristocracy
    The Eighth Column

    How Wajida Tabassum explored desire, debauchery of Hyderabad’s aristocracy

    5 April 2023 6:30 AM IST
    In Anubhav Sinha’s films, the cry for social justice, yearning for real change
    Entertainment

    In Anubhav Sinha’s films, the cry for social justice, yearning for real change

    23 March 2023 4:00 PM IST
    How Patrick French chronicled India story, from Independence to economic progress
    Features

    How Patrick French chronicled India story, from Independence to economic progress

    19 March 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Spain boardroom women
    Women's March

    What India can learn from Spain’s law for 40% boardroom seats for women

    13 March 2023 2:00 AM IST
    Gita Ramaswamy
    Women's March

    Gita Ramaswamy: A revolutionary without a gun, who fought for landless madigas

    11 March 2023 6:30 AM IST
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    Women's March

    Are women’s posteriors fetishised, objectified in our culture? Butt of course

    8 March 2023 2:28 PM IST
    Meet five French women authors who celebrate the feminine experience
    Women's March

    Meet five French women authors who celebrate the feminine experience

    1 March 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Riyas Komu interview: How art can be a site of political discourse, dissent
    Features

    Riyas Komu interview: How art can be a site of political discourse, dissent

    26 Feb 2023 6:30 AM IST
    How SH Raza and Progressive Artists’ Group put India on international art map
    Features

    How SH Raza and Progressive Artists’ Group put India on international art map

    22 Feb 2023 6:30 AM IST
    Watch | It’s a dangerous moment in India’s history: Aakar Patel interview
    Videos

    Watch | It’s a dangerous moment in India’s history: Aakar Patel interview

    15 Feb 2023 7:39 PM IST
    Zia Mohyeddin
    Obituary

    Zia Mohyeddin: A thespian, a showman and a passionate storyteller

    14 Feb 2023 5:42 PM IST
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