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Abuse and desire go hand in hand in Yukio Mishimas

Abuse and desire go hand in hand in Yukio Mishima’s 1950 novel ‘Thirst For Love’

“If it weren’t for love, people would get along fine. If it weren’t for love…”Yukio Mishima’s Thirst for Love is scandalous for all the right reasons. Written with startling clarity about a woman obsessed with a young man, Mishima forces...
Mumbai One dead five injured after electrocution during Ganesh Chaturthi

Mumbai: One dead, five injured after electrocution during Ganesh Chaturthi procession

A man died after coming in contact with a live electric wire when a procession was heading to immerse an idol of the deity Ganesh in Mumbai on Sunday morning, PTI reported.Five others, including two minors, were injured in the...
Toll rises to 46 losses mount to Rs 14000 crore

Toll rises to 46, losses mount to Rs 14,000 crore

Forty-six people have died in Punjab over the past month as the state faces its worst floods in nearly four decades, PTI reported.The toll increased to 46 after three more deaths were reported, The Indian Express quoted a daily flood...
Maoist commander with Rs 10 lakh bounty killed in gunfight

Maoist commander with Rs 10 lakh bounty killed in gunfight with security forces

A Maoist commander was killed in a gunfight with security forces in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Sunday morning, the Hindustan Times quoted police as saying.Amit Hansda, alias Upton, was the zonal commander of the banned Communist Party of...
A fable of civic mothers on stage

A fable of civic mothers on stage

Supported by the colonial British-Indian administration, American Historian Katherine Mayo wrote her best-known work, Mother India in 1927. The book tried to fix India’s image in a single damning frame. Mayo argued forcefully that Indians were not worthy of autonomy...
TMC leader arrested after school headmaster reportedly dies by suicide

TMC leader arrested after school headmaster reportedly dies by suicide

A Trinamool Congress leader has been arrested after the death of a school headmaster, reportedly by suicide, in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, according to The Indian Express.Ujjal Singha Ray, headmaster at Raninagar Sheikhpara Babultali Khalilur Rahman High School in Domkal...
Six new Indian titles that blur the line between our

Six new Indian titles that blur the line between our real and imagined worlds

All information sourced from publishers.A Kind of Meat and Other Stories, Catherine Thankamma The stories in this collection have a shared theme: innocent children and audacious women – wives, mothers, daughters, widows – carrying the burden of living in a...
India buys Russian oil ‘solely to profiteer alleges Trump aide

India buys Russian oil ‘solely to profiteer’, alleges Trump aide

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Saturday alleged that India was buying Russian oil “solely to profiteer”, and that these purchases were fuelling Russia’s “war machine” in Ukraine.Navarro made the comments even as United States President Donald Trump on...
FIR filed after plaque with Ashoka emblem vandalised at Hazratbal

FIR filed after plaque with Ashoka emblem vandalised at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday filed a first information report after an inauguration plaque with the Ashoka emblem placed inside the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar was vandalised, Greater Kashmir reported.The Islamic shrine houses a holy relic of Prophet...
Humanity is losing sight the celestial commons

Humanity is losing sight the celestial commons

One December evening I climbed to the mottai-madi, the bare terrace atop my parents’ four-floor apartment building in Chennai and waited for darkness to descend. The sun still hung low, an orange-red orb in the distance. Overhead, rose-ringed parakeets zipped...
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