Karan Johar’s #RockyAurRaniKiiPremKahaani was entertaining for about 1.5 hours.
Zoya Akhtar’s #TheArchies didn’t work after 1.5 minutes. Bollywood’s aging babalog needs to reinvent themselves, or else are out. Both had used old Hindi songs for period effect. Old trope 🤦‍♀️

The Mozhi Prize 2023 shortlist is here🥳🥳 Congratulations to the shortlisted translators, who've brought us an eclectic mix of stories! Stay tuned for the final results next week. Special thanks to our wonderful judges N.S. Madhavan Jenny Bhatt (on a social media break) and Rahul Soni

Kolkata folks, see you here! Tomorrow at Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre at 5 pm. I will discuss the writings of my great-uncle Prof Humayun Kabir, juxtaposing his novel ‘Men and Rivers’ against his political theory of minorities in democracies + early poetry from his Oxford days.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted translators for the 2023 Mozhi Prize. Truly, this was a terrific set of stories, and we had such rich discussions about them.

Shoutout to Priyamvada and Suchitra for founding this pioneering platform.

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for The Mozhi Prize 2023! Priyamvada. This is out of a submissions list of almost 200 entries and a longlist of 21. We are very grateful to our panel of judges - N.S. Madhavan, Jenny Bhatt (on a social media break) and Rahul Soni.

N.S. Madhavan My first translation into Tamil for 2024 would be N,S.Madhavan sir's Malayalam dramas, Rendu Nadakangal

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Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indian has been replaced by the Acquiescent Indian of Amrit Kaal. We resort to puns that will not be punished and silences that cannot be sued.

Democracy is India’s sacred space. And it should be a far freer space.

My piece: bit.ly/3vpO4zS

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2023. Manorama today

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Tamil labourers went to Madagascar with great expectations in the early 20th century, but faced the worst possible conditions there. My latest for Scroll.
scroll.in/magazine/10610…

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Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?
theguardian.com/books/2023/nov… N.S. Madhavan