S.v. Srinivas

Apr 18, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Lawrence Liang |S.v. Srinivas |Anand Mishra |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

The Penguin Book of Bengali Short StoriesEdited by Arunava Sinha‎Penguin ClassicsRs.1,250This anthology collects a century’s worth of Bengali fiction, some in translation for the first time. The stories cover a gamut of styles and a range of issues like the dilemmas of the middle class, patriarchy, famine and the Bangladesh Liberation War. ___The Solitude of a ShadowDevibharathi, translated N. Kalyan RamanHarper PerennialRs.399Devibharathi is a widely read contemporary Tamil writer.

Apr 18, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Patrick Olivelle |R. Mahalakshmi |Lawrence Liang |S.v. Srinivas

As you drive from the airport to the Outer Ring Road or near Race Course Road in New Delhi, it is impossible to miss seeing three large snarling lions—seated back to back, beady-eyed, threatening. Apparently based on the Mauryan emperor Asoka’s pillar capital at Sarnath, the claim for creating a 6.5-metre-long, 9,500-kilogram colossus atop the central foyer of the new Parliament building was that it represented the decolonisation of the capital city.

Apr 18, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Prathyush Parasuraman |Lawrence Liang |S.v. Srinivas |Anand Mishra

In the summer of 1996, the 27-year-old Riyad Wadia, a filmmaker dubbed “The Young Turk” in a newspaper profile and the scion of Wadia Movietone Studios, which produced the “Fearless Nadia” Hunterwali films of the 1930s, was drifting. Having directed the acclaimed documentary Fearless: The Hunterwali Story (1993), he was flailing for stories to tell, while also grappling with how to articulate his sexuality.

Apr 18, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Lawrence Liang |S.v. Srinivas |Anand Mishra |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

CHANGES in the microbiome in the gut have been linked to a range of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and inflammatory bowel disease. A recent study has added one more to that list: cardiovascular disease (CVD). The study, published in Cell, was done by a team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Massachusetts General Hospital.

Apr 18, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Manju Kapur |Shuma Raha |Lawrence Liang |S.v. Srinivas

Manju Kapur’s latest novel, The Gallery, is an exploration of the lives of women: their inclinations and desires and the compromises they often make owing to their belief that this is the best that they can get out of their lives. But in that journey of manifold submissions and capitulations, they may yet find the space to stake a claim for power and grace and a voice of their own.