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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicLiterature

Topic: Literature

Remembering Debendranath Tagore: Son of a Prince, father of Gurudev & founder of a religion

Debendranath Tagore founded took the principles championed by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and turned them into Brahmoism, an influential religion in Bengal

Delhi University should have the courage to read Kancha Ilaiah

Kancha Ilaiah’s writings are provocative, but that’s no reason for DU to drop him.

Subramania Bharati: The Mahakavi Modi invoked in his Independence Day speech

On his death anniversary, recalling the poet, social reformer and freedom fighter who altered history despite a short life.

V.S. Naipaul was like family. Even if you didn’t love him, he was part of your story

The Nobel Prize winner passed away Sunday at the age of 85.

Munshi Premchand’s ‘Godaan’ featured Hindi fiction’s first live-in relationship

Premchand's women characters are definitely stronger than his male ones and fight battles to liberate their sexuality. If there is one day in the calendar...

Reading Dalit literature changes established accounts of nationalism, colonialism & modernity

Reading Dalit literature, we encounter an India that the urban upper-caste readers choose to ignore, or a definition of India we would rather not learn.

Rupi Kaur on how to deal with desi parents when you write about sex

Poet Rupi Kaur on growing up in a conservative Indian-origin Canadian family, writing about sexuality and self-love, and the resulting awkwardness at home.

Shashi Tharoor on why the Jaipur Lit Fest is not just about parties and celebrity writers

Many at the Jaipur Literature Festival are drawn by the idea of taking selfies with celebrities than with reading their books or engaging with their ideas.

Political correctness has morphed into an undemocratic censor in India

The mob as censor is a convenient clamp-down weapon for democratic governments

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.