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Shukla’spoetry catches introspective, imaginative moments in the act of their arrival. The most ordinary of scenes—a crow holding a snatched sliver of roti in its beak—carries vast truths. When the crow can, why is it wrong for a hunger-crazed man to claim his share?

Rainy #Bengaluru is back ❤️🌧️

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"Srikar Raghavan’s book romances a Karnataka beyond #Bengaluru..." An in-depth and engaging review of "Rama Bhima Soma" by Aditya Sondhi at Frontline Do read! frontline.thehindu.com/books/rama-bhi…

"All of Han Kang's works are investigations into various forms of brutality," writes Mridula Vijayarangakumar mridula. Don't miss her perceptive review of #Nobelwinner Han Kang's latest novel, "We Do Not Part" Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/books/han-kang…

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#MarioVargasLlosa "was not ours, and yet he belonged to us: because good writers do, until they don’t," says Deeptanil Ray in his remarkable obituary for the dear departed Peruvian writer. Read it here Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary…

A unique exhibition on ephemera related to #Ambedkar Azim Premji University showed him not just as a lawmaker, but as a moral guide, friend, and family man. I write Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

"In Renaissance literature, dying is used to mean both orgasm and death. Mary Magdalene’s sensual pose suggests that she might be in the throes of the more agreeable death." I write about Caravaggio’s "Magdalene in Ecstasy" Frontline Kiran Nadar Museum of Art #art #Renaissance

"I Am On the Hitlist: Murder and Myth-Making in South India" by Rollo Romig has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction 2025. Read and watch Romig's interview with Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed @Frontline here: frontline.thehindu.com/society/rollo-…

Percival Everett’s novel "James" has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2025. Read the incisive review by Latha Anantharaman here Frontline #replug frontline.thehindu.com/books/james-pe…

Away from the studios, the socials and the reels, borders are real places, homes to real lives, people like you and me, with families, histories, and hearts. Many have already perished. There's still time to stop this war. #Notowar

War destroys. Say #notowar

This day in May, 100 years ago, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" was published. Replugging something I wrote for TheHinduBooks "Clarissa carries Septimus within her but unlike him, she must go on, in a nod to life, to art." thehindu.com/books/perfect-…

Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi for winning the #InternationalBookerPrize 🥳 Read the superb review of "Heart Lamp" by mridula at @Frontline here: frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cultu…

Beauty unlimited: #Bangalore with its #monsoon sky

What a beauty!

A lively, mischievous book by Sangeetha Vallat that whooshes past you like Duranto Express. A memoir that captures the magic and mayhem of the Indian Railways. Read the book and its absorbing review by Aditya Sondhi at Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/books/platform…

Dharma is at the apex of the moral scheme of the Mahabharata and the dog is revealed to be dharma personified. That’s very high praise indeed and maybe something to be remembered by all those who kick street dogs. My newsletter Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/newsletter/rea…