Tag: Fiction
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Fiction flourishes in contradiction: Pak author Mira Sethi
"Young people get their news - and their aspirations - from social media and television. Their desires are secular, but the frameworks into which these people are born are traditionalist."
May 25, 2021 -
Top 5 online Creative Writing courses in India
Most creative writing courses will include advice on how to write fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
March 18, 2021 -
Book extract: Rewind and Play by Tarun Gautam
Though the book is meant for readers of all ages, it is bound to touch a chord with those in their early 30s and 40s, who nostalgically reminisce their school or college days.
April 24, 2019 -
Man Booker Prize longlist brings to light ‘a world on brink’
The longlist features a graphic novel for the first time, four debut novelists and several previously nominated authors.
July 24, 2018 -
Dicey desertion
The truth may indeed be stranger than fiction, but it would call for more than the proverbial “pinch of salt” to accept the contention that unhappiness at being posted far from home sufficed for a jawan of the Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry to desert his unit, and switch allegiance to the terrorist Hizbul Mujahideen …
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April 20, 2018 -
The year when Indian fiction reflected the burden of society
A novel that takes its readers into the abyss of poverty and patriarchy, thereby narrating the sordid uses of power and the agony it unleashes; a dystopian satire that draws a telling portrait of our times; and finally an international bestseller from India weaves together a writer’s experiences as a social and environmental activist — …
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December 17, 2017 -
Stalinist stories: The Soviet Man of Steel’s fictional forays
There are just a handful of statesmen who have greatly influenced the course of the 20th century — for good or bad. But can we categorise leaders on this moral standard — for the most evil may have done some good, or vice versa. We could try the more tangible measure of success and failure, …
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December 17, 2017 -
Brave encounters with fact and fiction
It required a good deal of courage on the part of Saibal Mitra to attempt a variation on the life and times of the Santiniketan legend Binode Behari Mukherjee without generating a debate on two fronts. The first area of concern related to the personality of the painter himself. Ashramites and products of Kala Bhavan …
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December 2, 2017 -
Life of a spy
Everyone is imperfect and everyone deserves to be loved, is what the author of The Girl Who Loved a Spy, Kulpreet Yadav, believes in and surrounds his latest fictional thriller around it. Writing a crime fiction is not everyone's cup of tea and the fundamental feature of a thrilling fictional novel is to keep the …
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July 27, 2017 -
Absolute reprisal
Jeffrey Archer’s novels are a perfect way of eluding the surrounding and transporting oneself into a different world. This prolific writer has written many series, novels and short stories. The eccentricity in his novels is highlighted through vivid portrayal of good, bad, conceit, pride or ‘honour’. Honour Among Thieves, a fiction written in 1993, centred …
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May 10, 2017