Sudipta Datta
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2 months ago |
thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta
(This story is part of The Hindu on Books newsletter that comes to you with book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Subscribe here.)Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The 13th edition of the Kolkata Literary Meet was held from January 21-26 at a new venue this year, the Horticultural Garden in Alipore unlike the usual Victoria Memorial lawns.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta
This story is part of The Hindu on Books newsletter that comes to you with book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Subscribe here.)Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter.
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Jan 18, 2025 |
thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta
East Berlin-born writer Jenny Erpenbeck waited 30 years to write about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the changes that it brought to a country – German Democratic Republic or East Germany – which ceased to exist. In a conversation with historian Ira Mukhoty, Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann, who translated her International Booker Prize-winning novel Kairos into English, unravelled the reasons why it took so long to tell a story close to her heart.
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Jan 18, 2025 |
thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta
What was the moment that moved a renowned physician to become a writer? For the first session of The Hindu’s Lit for Life 2025, Dr. Abraham Verghese, author of best-selling novels including The Covenant of Water, Cutting for Stone, The Tennis Partner, and a ground-breaking memoir, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, elaborated on the power of words to convey the human condition.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta
A general election that surprised India in 2024, an expansive history of the Cholas, a vignette from the British Raj era, the rise and fall of Awadh, how geography often influences destiny, tracking Dawood to Karachi – writers will debate a diverse array of topics on day two of The Hindu’s Lit for Life 2025 in Chennai. Shashi Tharoor, Abraham Verghese, Peter Frankopan, Anirudh Kanisetti, Rajdeep Sardesai, Aruna Roy, Soumya Swaminathan, Ira Mukhoty, S.
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