Different stories about India
"The mytho-epic imagination is an integral part of the structure of our culture. The religious character of the mytho-epic imagination in the Indian s...
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In this podcast, National Books Editor Manjula Narayan tells you about books, authors and their journeys. This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you by HT Smartcast
Of passportism and pseudiscovery
"The history of tourism is intricately connected to colonialism. Travel writing is a direct descendent of colonial exploratory writing and even today,...
Refreshing retellings of traditional tales
"Stories leave a deep impact on how our thinking is shaped. These stories are challenging some very traditional ideas that still exist heavily in soci...
On the complex Indian village
"Villages are complicated entities. There's always a power game. Now, money values have come in and villages are also changing. The lives between the ...
No last words in history
"While we must read histories produced by historians who have different perspectives on the past, it is very important not to get trapped in any parti...
A word to the wise
"Strangers matter online. We tend to put a lot of weight on reviews. But it is difficult to tell which ones are fake and which are not. Computer scien...
Of carpets and memories
I'm not an expert but I am a connoisseur and most of the carpets in this book are part of my collection. Carpets harbour a lot of stories but we seldo...
Sex and the Indian woman: It's complicated
"Every culture's sexual values get imbued into all parts of their thinking, not just into how they think about the bedroom. Under patriarchy, mothers ...
Big tech, profit, loss, and AI
"AI doesn't create; it reproduces. AI doesn't know what is good or bad; even in art, it doesn't know. People want to know whether we'll reach a level ...
Detective fiction and the search for justice
Crime fiction seems to have a steady presence because of the way in which it is able to address contemporary issues of law and order relating also to ...