'The caste system pervades South Asian society, politics, and economy and nobody can deny or shy away from this fact.'

The work of Deborah Smith, Han's translator, was initially the subject of great controversy in Korea. 'But now everyone translates like her – except for the ones that are not successful,' says translator Anton Hur.

An illustrated book on the Mughals’ history, by Ashwitha Jayakumar and Nikhil Gulati, squeezes 300 years into 130 pages, utilising every corner, margin, gutter, nook, and cranny to say, ’yes’.

It certainly wants to be. But is there a cost?

Scattered across Bhutan’s literary, media and arts landscape is a deep, almost desperate, drive to strike a balance between its time-told faith in the spiritual aspects of life and the necessity to make itself relevant for its young population.

While the protests have seen shows of unity like no other, and although all agitators have called for punishment for the crime's perpetrators, there are subtle differences in their other demands. 

Last Sunday’s ‘football protest’ ended the way all things end in the state. The clubs have distanced themselves from it, and cops have paid visits to some protesters. But it was a peek into what its young can teach Bengal.

Elif Shafak's latest novel cares little about structural purity, progressing with a self-sustaining cadence not unlike that of rivers. 

We did not always consign ourselves to spending adulthood in cities that were not our hometown so as to be able to earn a livelihood. Buddhadeb is emblematic of that time.

The Centre functions under the India Institute for Critical Action Centre in Movement, which was informed that the cancellation is because of wrong filings from the 2018 and 2019 financial years.

YouTube's email notifying the channel owners on the government's move to block the full version came 11 days after the YouTube Short was blocked.

'Many Indian viewers predicted this would probably happen when we published the full version on June 1. However, I was surprised at the severity of the charges cited as justification for the block,' says Juice Media's Giordanno Nanni.

It is something of a feat that the profession of political cartooning persists in the India of today. But those who keep at it are loath to bow to threats, trolling and the occasional contempt of court case.

'The only way to get to the bottom of it is through a technical and forensic audit,' says Maheshwer Peri.

Over the last decade, phones have gone from work to play to one’s primary access to news, government schemes and hatred.

You cannot recall Munro the way you would a novelist or an essayist. So enormous is the experience of her stories, and at once so gentle, that they become part of life.

The May 3 RSF 'press freedom' rankings have us reckoning with the fact that journalists are either ousted from the country, jailed, penalised or criticised for a stance when reporting on government inattention to issues. In the process the focus sometimes, is on the teller, not the story. 

As ‘Azadi’ rings out prominently amongst other slogans, these protests also spell an epochal moment for students from the Subcontinent. The students are calling for defunding Israel for its attack on Gaza that appears to have electrified a generation. 

'I think we can stop pretending now. The propaganda of hate is loud enough.'

Close on the heels of Congress saying it has been slapped with a Rs 1,823-crore notice by the I-T department, it has emerged that CPI has been charged a hefty sum over the use of an ‘old PAN card’.