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Somak Ghoshal

@somakghoshal

Writer, critic, reporter. *NEW ACCOUNT*

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Sujaan Mukherjee writes about 'Spies, Lies and Allies,' Kavitha Rao's new book about the legacy of two forgotten revolutionaries--MN Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhay. livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory: what a glorious essay by ⁦Aatish Taseer⁩, a masterclass in reckoning with the cruelty and care of a formidable mentor. granta.com/vs-naipaul-the…

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Grabbing words by the scruff: ⁦Vikram⁩ has reinvented the art of book reviewing in this fabulous piece of prose. vikramshah.substack.com/p/grabbing-wor…

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My column this month in Mint Lounge looks at the intertwined legacies of two of the greatest Bengalis who ever lived, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, in the context of a collection of Tagore's stories elegantly translated by Sharmistha Mohanty. Mint

My column this month in <a href="/Mint_Lounge/">Mint Lounge</a> looks at the intertwined legacies of two of the greatest Bengalis who ever lived, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, in the context of a collection of Tagore's stories elegantly translated by Sharmistha Mohanty. <a href="/livemint/">Mint</a>
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Two iconic Bengalis and their intertwined legacies: I write about Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray in my column for Mint Lounge this month livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

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AI-generated picture books for children are getting better with time. Illustrators tell Somak Ghoshal how they feel about this development livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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Former Google executive Anne-Laure Le Cunff offers tools to fight toxic productivity and procrastination. Somak Ghoshal has more on this livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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Somak Ghoshal keeps a keen eye on new English literary fiction produced by young Kashmiri writers grounded in their land and its many untold stories. This time a review of Shabir Ahmad's second novel, The Last Knot: livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

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Biologist Vidya Rajan decodes the science and history behind rubber, a substance that forms the basis of modern life in her book 'Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance'. Somak Ghoshal talks to the author livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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My review of Shabir Ahmad Mir's haunting second novel, THE LAST KNOT, where history meets dark fantasy, set in Kashmir under Dogra rule. livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

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‘With The Last Knot, Mir has proved that it is indeed possible to experiment with form, structure and ideas, while staying rooted to the harsh reality of his people’s lives’ Somak Ghoshal reviews THE LAST KNOT for Mint: Shabir Ahmad Mir livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

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‘On Failing’, a recently launched collection of essays edited by writer Amit Chaudhuri, contests the idea of success being the only benchmark for humans to live by, writes Somak Ghoshal livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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Being laid off is undoubtedly tragic. But it’s also hard for those who have to do the dirty job of firing people, writes Somak Ghoshal livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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In Satyajit Ray’s ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’, Simi Garewal donned black body paint to play a tribal woman. Unfortunately, more than 50 years later, the practice continues, writes Somak Ghoshal livemint.com/mint-lounge/id…

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Lindsay Pereira’s new collection of stories, Songs Our Bodies Sing, is uneven and undercooked, with a couple of exceptions, writes Somak Ghoshal livemint.com/mint-lounge/ar…

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Geet Chaturvedi reflects on reading, writing and translations in his new book, The Master of Unfinished Things. I loved this collection and the translation by Anita Gopalan. livemint.com/mint-lounge/bo…