Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Club Literati organised a discussion session with 10-year-old twin sisters Shivranjani and Devyani who have co-authored two books – Sun Salutations and Saraswati Rajamani. Both are class 5 students. The books have received acclaim from renowned author Amish Tripathi and Prime Minister Modi. Their mentor and mother Smita Bharadwaj said that Covid … Read more
Dear Reader, It’s a sunny winter afternoon on the Malabar Coast, and I am teaching a personal storytelling class at IIM Kozhikode. Sixty students are seated in an amphitheatre-like classroom, on a campus spread over hillsides covered with coconut and chikoo trees. Many have come in from neighbouring towns, and some from as far away … Read more
There’s been much debate among Star Wars fans about which of the original trilogy, the early 2000s prequels, or the recent sequels could be considered the best film. There have been vigorously debated rankings but the consensus amongst fans and regular movie-goers alike tends to mostly put the standalone prequel film, Rogue One, on top. Andor, … Read more
Earlier this year, while finishing a book on music films I rewatched 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Steve Coogan’s tribute to Tony Wilson and Manchester from 2002. I was writing about how the form of the music documentary had permeated narrative cinema, both fictional and that rooted in the biographies of … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Mindset”… the new buzzword, kind of like pivot (barf). I was the same way. The daughter of a Marine, born in the early ’80s and the baby of five, I definitely didn’t hear anything about “mindset” as a kid. What I did hear was: “Money doesn’t grow … Read more
Ryoji Ikeda returns with more of his signature algorithmic composition, firing through seventeen frantic tracks of glitching, minimal electronics. Ikeda’s work is as rich as ever, drawing upon the extra-musical terrain of quantum physics, genetics, and computational form to further express the rhythmic potential of data. For all the heady intellectualism of its source material, … Read more
As both a beauty lover and a bookworm, finding an intersection between the two can be difficult. That’s when I find a good beauty book, my excitement levels spike through the roof. Below, find the best beauty-centric books out there for the avid reader who also happens to love makeup, skincare, fragrance, or hair. Whether you’re … Read more
How relevant is the context to a text and its writer? Understanding the circumstances that mould a writer is, perhaps, only a supplementary element in the process of literary appreciation, but it undeniably facilitates a comprehensive understanding of the writer and the text. The Routledge Writer in Context series on Indian writers has originated from … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Burnout doesn’t only affect rank-and-file employees. It’s a significant problem among entrepreneurs as well. According to an April 2018 study by three Harvard Business Review contributors, more than 25% of entrepreneurs are burned out to some degree. One quarter of respondents report “serious burnout.” Related: Check out … Read more
1. Saki skewered the Edwardian ruling class with surreal humor and savage wit. In this masterly story-collection, a newly deceased young woman slaughters a loathed male acquaintance’s prized hens on the day of her own funeral when she returns reincarnated as an otter. Two women trying to gatecrash a garden party are confronted by a … Read more