Literary history
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Persian prose meets pulp fiction: How an 18th-century fairy tale became a multilingual phenomenon
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A writer goes back in time to Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, to see the place through EM Forster’s eyes
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What questions did the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s catalogue of ‘102 Great Ideas’ raise?
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Booker Prize: Rediscovering the first female winner, the often-forgotten Bernice Rubens
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Why Alexander the Great was treated with hostility in Zoroastrian literature
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How a 19th century Urdu play come to be translated in Hebrew script
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Jane Austen is the face of the new £10 note, and her curious banking story makes her an apt choice
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Why are Alys’s letters to her husband Faiz Ahmed Faiz consigned to elite private readings?
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PG Wodehouse shrugs off wartime controversy to take his place among the greats
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Those poems you read in school are not what Indian poetry in English really is
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Literary friendships that lead to better books (but also ferocious fights)
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How an Irish poet's epic poem on Kashmir captivated the West, spawning operas, musicals and grandeur
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The story of Amrita Pritam’s final love poem
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Manto on Ismat, who, like independent India and Pakistan, was born on August 15
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Meet Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khanan, who was also the ‘bhakta’ poet Rahim Das
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The RK Narayan museum is sparse on exhibits, and almost a Narayanesque tragicomedy
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Sixty-five years later, we still don’t get ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and Holden Caulfield
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Searching for a home in the world: Why Bangladesh's fiction writers are isolated
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Seven things you may not have known about the Sahitya Akademi