Books

Fifty shades of brown

RAKA SARKHEL on Indira Naidoo's Sydney Writers' Festival author's talk 'On Being Brown'

Reshaping memories

USHA RAMANUJAM ARVIND reports from Samanth Subramanian's Sydney Writers' Festival talk on 'This Divided Island'

The thought police

USHA RAMANUJAM ARVIND reports from 'Writers in Danger' at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Writing stories, righting history

Indigenous writers from India and Australia come together at a unique event, Literary Commons!

War behind closed doors

New perspectives reveal the largely unknown history behind the Sino-Indian war, writes CHITRA SUDARSHAN

A Chinese hat-trick in Bollywood and other villainies

VIKAS DATTA on a new book that takes us into the world of one of Bollywood’s best-known baddies

Finding new links in old stories

Translating Aboriginal stories into Tamil, Mathalai Somu discovers deep-rooted similarities as well as new pathways for preserving ancient cultures, writes ROYSTON REBELLO

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