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‘One Fine Day’: Tale Of Healing Journey

Three-and-half years ago, at the age of forty-seven, US-based Sameer Bhide suffered an extremely rare and massive hemorrhagic stroke and underwent two brain surgeries and then spent a month in a medically

January 5, 2021

Books·Health·Lite Blogs

Year-end Reads By Female Authors

From what keeps women out of the workplace, to stories that connect law and humanity, here are five female authors to end your year and with. ‘Yours Legally’ by Sonia Sahijwani ‘Yours

December 28, 2020

Books·Lite Blogs

Reading amid the pandemic

Amid the host of autobiographies and biographies, examinations of political partisanship – and their social effects, new looks at history and more as well as a wide array of fiction for all

December 27, 2020

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Renowned Poet Sugathakumari Dies At 86

Renowned Malayalam Poet and activist Sugathakumari passed away on Wednesday. She was tested positive for Covid-19 and was under treatment at Tiruvananthapuram medical college. The 86 year old poet and Padma Shri

December 23, 2020

Books·Lite Blogs·Obituary

‘The Longest Kiss’ On Indian Cinema

“I hope that I have managed to establish who Devika Rani really was. A rebellious and unusually talented and beautiful woman, a great actress and studio head who changed the course of

December 23, 2020

Bollywood·Books·Lite Blogs

World’s first voice activated museum in Franklin

Planet Word, a non-profit museum dedicated to the power, beauty, and fun of language and to showing how words shape the human experience, has opened its doors to the public…writes Siddhi Jain.

December 15, 2020

Books·Music

‘It is actually difficult to avoid ‘love’

Author and educationist Abbyshek Chandra, whose debut novel, ‘Love You Forever’, was launched last year, says he took the romance genre, because “love is the most popular and one of the strongest

December 9, 2020

Books·Lite Blogs

‘I decided to figure out my faith’

Award-winning author and columnist Shoba Narayan is a graduate from the Columbia Journalism School with a Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship and writes on food, travel, fashion, and art and culture for a slew

December 1, 2020

Arts & Culture·Books·Interview

‘Freedom In Exile’ Translated Into Assamese

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s second autobiography ‘Freedom in Exile’ has been translated into Assamese by eminent writer Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, a recipient of the Padma Shri, the Central Tibetan Administration

November 30, 2020

Arts & Culture·Books

‘The Lost Homestead’: A Cathartic Narrative

A film on India’s last Viceroy triggered a series of journeys to the sub-continent as Marina Wheeler attempted to come to terms with its partition in 1947 and the trauma that it

November 20, 2020

Arts & Culture·Books·Interview

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