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Does India read for pleasure? A short note on the Guardian piece
A recently published article in The Guardian has sparked a lively debate about India’s reading culture. In the piece Amrit Dhillon tries to make sense of the question that despite abysmally low numbers of book sales, why does the country organize so many literature festivals? The author acknowledges that other Indian languages (so-called regional or…
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Do you forget what you read? Read this
My friends often complain that they forget what they read. This is a common experience, and I am no exception to it. I was reading the book Social Constructionism by Vivien Burr last week and I have already forgotten most of itsarguments. What can one do about this frustrating fact? Well, change your approach! The…
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It is okay if you don’t understand everything you read
People who read regularly know this very well: every time we read a book the second time, the third time we get something different from it, something new. That is because we as readers are active meaning makers. The meaning does not depend only on what is in the text but also on what interpretive…
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Getting back to fiction with Domínguez’s ‘The House of Paper’
When I saw two-three posts about the book The House of Paper in Marathi Facebook circle, I got pretty excited thinking a new Marathi novel has dropped that has caught everyone’s attention — a pretty rare occurrence for Marathi literature. I was slightly disappointed when on closer inspection I realized it was actually a translation…
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माझ्या पिएचडीची पहिली दोन वर्षे: काय कमावलं, काय गमावलं?
ह्या महिन्यात मी पिएचडीची दोन वर्षं पूर्ण केली. ह्या दोन वर्षांमध्ये बरंच काही नवीन अनुभवायला मिळालं, शिकायला मिळालं, नवीन मित्र बनले, नवीन देश, नवीन शहरं पाहायला मिळाली. मी २०१९ मध्ये जेव्हा ऑक्सफर्डला गेलो ते माझं पहिल्यांदा परदेशी जाणं होतं. त्यावेळी जशी भिती वाटत होती तशी भिती ह्यावेळी नव्हती. ज्यादिवशी मी न्यु यॉर्कच्या जे एफ केनेडी…
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