No year-enders this time. I have not recovered enough from what this year inflicted on me to write dispassionately about it. But as the name promises, I am writing the next worst thing: the decline ...

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From meeting EM Forster to being called “the Muslim James Joyce”, India’s greatest novelist speaks about his long and ever-migrating life in letters ...

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Thomas sees education as key to self-betterment. It was a book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Marxist educator, given to him by an activist friend that showed him the power of ...