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By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : The new vernacular poetry in India is moving away from the softer shades of nature and love - the genre made famous by poet Rabindranath Tagore - to negotiate the turbulent contemporary times by addressing ...
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, Indian school days are hardly Enid Blyton's Malory Towers where stories lurk in every nook and brew in every cranny of the classrooms and hostels. Schools here are usually associated with nose-on-the-grindstone regimen, ...
By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS, New Delhi : In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and BR Ambedkar after ...

