In India, the 'Lost Generation' was actually a generation that found its voice

India, May 30 -- The defining event of the Lost Generation in Europe and the Americas was the Great War. It is harder to pinpoint a single event that served the same function for that cohort in India... Read More

The peak before the fall: Jazz, glamour, Gatsby and a short-lived Golden Age

India, May 30 -- One of the most consequential figures of the Jazz Age, arguably, was a now-forgotten man named Wayne Bidwell Wheeler. He was the driving force behind the National Prohibition Act of ... Read More

Trapped between two wars: The art of the Lost Generation

India, May 30 -- Sometime in the early 1920s, Gertrude Stein took her ancient Ford Model T from her home in Paris's Rue de Fleurus to a local mechanic. The car had been having starting trouble, and th... Read More

Jane character energy: 250 years on, what still makes Austen's novels the stuff of blockbusters?

India, May 9 -- Early on in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a one-sentence description of Mrs Bennet, the protagonist's mother: "The business of her life was to get her daughters married; ... Read More

Jane character energy: 250 years on, what makes Austen's novels the stuff of blockbusters?

India, May 9 -- Early on in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a one-sentence description of Mrs Bennet, the protagonist's mother: "The business of her life was to get her daughters married; ... Read More

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