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A place of error or mistakenness: Finding Nobel Laureate Anne Carson in translation
As soon as I learnt that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature had been awarded to poet,…
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Indian cities need to move beyond building more roads. They need better road networks
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Are younger consumers buying cars like they buy phones?
Until recently, buying a car meant obsessing over horsepower, transmission types and b…
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Memoir: Why an American comparative literature scholar studied Sanskrit in Paris
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‘Pyre’ review: A moving tale of loneliness and endurance
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A new book revisits the years when Bombay’s working-class libraries were flourishing
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SIR applies a decade of exclusion lessons perfected on welfare schemes
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How the mismatch between climate change and touristic aspirations is harming the Himalayas
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Mehran Hodiwala’s songs find the funny side of life’s uncomfortable moments
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Why India’s ethanol push is not benefitting farmers
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Memoir: A searing account of growing up in a family shaped by bipolar disorder and inheriting it
My mother suffered from bipolar disorder. We didn’t have a name for the illness but we…
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How children with disabilities are made to jump through hoops to access benefits
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When 11 women made a film together: ‘No weeping, no sad song in the background’
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A new Brahmin-first party in UP symbolises a growing disquiet among BJP’s core voters
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Ladakh leaders reject Centre’s governance draft, say it gives overriding powers to L-G, bureaucracy
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‘Hazrat Mahal’: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones’s book keeps the rebel begam at the edge of her own story
History is read and reread, yet some parts always remain unexplored. Begam Hazrat Maha…
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Flashback: When CEC Lyngdoh refused BJP demand for early Gujarat poll until voter roll was updated
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Weekend watch: ‘After Hours’ is Martin Scorsese’s ‘gajab raat’
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‘Threats, detentions, militarisation’: How Arunachal government is choking anti-dam protests
On the morning of October 9, Adum Tayom was getting a haircut in a town in Arunachal P…
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Bangladesh has a higher per capita GDP than India. What does this mean for the BJP’s SIR push?
Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal, a newsletter on Indian politics. As always…
