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Translated from Tamil by Nandini Krishnan, 'Estuary' is the delicate story of a father and his son, and of the family at large, focusing on the weight of familial expectations in the life of a salaried, middle-class man
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The columnist has found that reading stories set in fictional or dystopic worlds assuages his paranoia and anxiety about the planet and himself. He recommends six novels that could be unexpected beacons during extended periods of turmoil
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The columnist takes us through his stirring journey of left and right swiping on dating apps, and the long-term effects of it on his approach to food
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The stereotype of stern, unapproachable librarians couldn’t be further from the truth for this columnist. He chats with an optimistic young woman who is looking to join the ranks of these guardians of books and is willing to risk a future in this institutionally overlooked profession
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Three authors convince the columnist that when it comes to age, there’s no deadline…
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Releasing on the anniversary of the decriminalisation of Section 377, Verve's Cultural Editor, Vivek Tejuja talks about having a privileged but often misunderstood childhood and wanting to deny his sexuality because of the deprecatory portrayal of homosexual characters in Bollywood films
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Delhi-based poet Shalim M. Hussain's Miyah poetry provides the metaphorical loudspeaker to the long-ignored voices of the Bengali-Muslim migrants living in the riverine plains of the Brahmaputra by documenting their stories of love, loss, celebration and injustice
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An LGBTQIA+ collective from Ahmedabad brings unsung South-Asian narratives under the umbrella of its annual zine, Tilt. QueerAbad co-founder, Anahita Sarabhai, tells Verve how up-and-coming queer artists are portraying their multi-hued perspectives
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Fresh off the release of her critically lauded debut poetry collection, Terrarium, Urvashi Bahuguna provides Verve with an exclusive must-read list, bringing together thematically diverse literary works that are awash in visceral descriptions of the natural world
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We catch up with the author of All The Lives We Never Lived at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019
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Ahead of the release of his new book, Frenandes gives us an exclusive peak at some of the wonderfully amusing artwork
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The Boston-based wordsmith presents an exclusive look at the first chapter from a novel that she is currently working on — a modern-day Pride and Prejudice with a YA twist
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