Authors Hemangini Dutta Majumder, Vasundhara Kashyap & Richa S. Mukherjee discuss crime fiction & reality at a session led by Payal Raman at 1st Jindal Literature Festival.
A young poet spoke up about being sexually harassed by a senior writer at Nayi Dhara's residency programme in Patna. Now Hindi literary world is confronting a long-ignored rot.
The Pakistani writer chose English as her language of creative expression. ‘One can get away with writing in English what you can't writing in Urdu,’ she said.
A growing tribe of women screenwriters, through the female gaze, are creating nuanced characters that defy tropes and telling richer, more layered stories as a result.
Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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