Ravi Raj

Actor and writer Manav Kaul tells us why he draws inspiration from PEN/Nabokov Award-winner, Vinod Kumar Shukla, whose work has been seminal in acquainting Hindi readers with magical realism

Literature

manav kaul

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Actor-Writer Manav Kaul On Uncomplicated World Of Vinod Kumar Shukla

Sheila Kumar

It&#8217;s that they are conditioned from early childhood to shy away from overt shows of sentiment, and they regard chick-flicks and chick-lit as overt-as-hell shows of sentiment.

Chick-Lit

romance

Talk

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Mush Ado: Real Men Don’t Read Romantic Novels. Or Do They?

MW Staff

Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore him.

#followfriday

Books

Chetan Bhagat

Indian writers

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#FollowFriday: Chetan Bhagat’s Twitter Feed Will Give You Plenty Of Reasons To Bash Him

Sameer Jha

It’s a bummer that biopics on writers are rare. We see so many of them on sportspersons.

Biopics

cinema

Ismat Chughtai

Khushwant Singh

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Salman Rushdie

Writers

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Controversial Writers Who Deserve Their Own Biopics

We feel sorry for all the English Literature students who will be asked to study Five Point Someone – and write long answers on its characters.

Five Point Someone

One Indian Girl

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Chetan Bhagat, We Have Good News And Bad News For You

It is Chetan Bhagat’s birthday, and we are sure that even if we don’t wish him, the rich man is going to be happy.

Amitav Ghosh

Authors

Jhumpa Lahiri

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10 Indian Writers You Should Read Instead Of Chetan Bhagat

If only the producers took our advice.

Adaptations

Chandrahas Choudhury

Naomi Datta

RK Narayan

The 6 PM Slot

Vikram Seth

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5 Indian Novels That Should Be Made Into Films

Arnesh Ghose

No one said making money is a bad thing — but from theatre? Let’s talk about Ashvin Gidwani, and how he’s been doing exactly that.

AGP World

Ashwin Gidwani

commercialise

entertainment

Indian theatre

Laezer Productions

Plays

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Ashvin Gidwani: The Rohit Shetty Of Indian Theatre

If you&#8217;ve always fantasized about sitting on a golden throne, then here&#8217;s your golden chance.

america

artist

Gold toilet

Maurizio Cattelan

Museum

Plautus

Pot of Gold

real life

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Pot of Gold: This Museum Invites Visitors To Use 18-Karat Gold Toilet

In this time of only black or white, Sheila Kumar laments the loss of the in-between.

caste

coexistence

coexisting

Community

Historian

Hitler

Irony

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Where Has All The Nuance Gone?

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