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Judging the Cover: An interview with award-winning book designer Bena Sareen
Judging the Cover: An interview with award-winning book designer Bena Sareen

Bena Sareen, winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize, speaks about her latest honour and the “huge responsibility” of designing a memorable literary cover. By Chittajit Mitra

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The Fraught Relationship Between Reality and Spectacle in Telugu Cinema
The Fraught Relationship Between Reality and Spectacle in Telugu Cinema

The problematic representation of women in many recent Telugu blockbusters like Peddi and the Pushpa films have stoked controversy. When mainstream commercial cinema consistently turns the sexualisation of women into entertainment, who should be responsible for the world these images help create? By Sumithra Prasanna

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The Gravedigger’s Soliloquy
The Gravedigger’s Soliloquy

Poem by Anju Devadas R D: ‘someone once said / the soul is lighter than breath / but the soil keeps secrets / the sky cannot hold.’

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A Jasmine Trail

Fiction by Urmi Chakravorty: ‘She lived in a community where a woman could cement her position only after she bore children. Without a biological offspring, her worth was limited: she was like another supermarket product, destined to be discarded after a brief shelf life.’

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