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“Poetry is a way of stopping time”: An Interview with Jeet Thayil

“I think when the poems came back to me, there was a kind of a lightness, a recklessness that I hadn’t experienced before”, Jeet Thayil remarks.  When he published his acclaimed 2008 collection, These Errors Are Correct-- an intimate meditation on grief in its varied...

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A Retrospective: The Curious Case of Qala

  Now that the dust has well and truly settled on 2022, and we wait poised for a summer of big Hindi film releases (although probably the biggest, Pathaan, has passed us), it’s becoming clear that last year was a turning point for the industry. It’s no secret that Bollywood has been floundering over the past couple of years, with its usual audiences taken in...

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A Retrospective: The Curious Case of Qala

  Now that the dust has well and truly settled on 2022, and we wait poised for a summer of big Hindi film releases (although probably the biggest, Pathaan, has passed us), it’s becoming clear that last year was a turning point for the industry. It’s no secret that Bollywood has been floundering over the past couple of years, with its usual audiences taken in...

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