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'These novels help me understand my Japanese side'

India, Sept. 13 -- 1What was the first Japanese book you translated, and what was that like? The first Japanese book I translated was Then Why Ask Me to Come? by Risa Wataya, an author I am delighted ... Read More


A traveller of both time and space

India, Sept. 13 -- As the novel begins, we find the protagonist, Nirvana, waking up on a Sunday afternoon, nursing a hangover from a three-day binge. He's in his single room apartment in Chuim Village... Read More


Reading Freud in Bundook Gully

India, Sept. 13 -- I recently complained to a friend that Indian writing in English often uses a voice curated for the Western reader, overexplaining or exoticising local phrases and idiosyncrasies. I... Read More


Union minister launches drive to empower rural development

LUCKNOW, Sept. 13 -- Union minister of state for cooperation Murlidhar Mohol on Friday launched the 'M-PACS Membership Maha Abhiyan 2025' in Lucknow to empower rural development and farmers' welfare b... Read More


Illegal occupation of waqf land: Inspector arrested

Kanpur, Sept. 13 -- A police inspector was arrested on Friday in connection with the alleged illegal occupation of three-bigha Waqf land in Kanpur's Civil Lines, where a marriage lawn had been constru... Read More


4 of family killed, one critically injured in landslide in Sikkim

Gangtok, Sept. 13 -- Four members of a family were killed after a landslide triggered by incessant rain struck their residence in Sikkim's Gyalshing district, police said on Friday, adding that anothe... Read More


Rs.420 crore allocated for Karnataka caste survey

Bengaluru, Sept. 13 -- The Karnataka government has allocated a sum of Rs.420 crore to the comprehensive social and educational survey scheduled to begin later this month, said chief minister Siddaram... Read More


Mayor pulls up LMC officialsfor poor revenue collection

LUCKNOW, Sept. 13 -- Expressing concern over poor recovery of tax and non-tax revenue, mayor Sushma Kharkwal on Friday warned Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) officials that negligence would not be... Read More


Panel directs special audit, opening of 'toshkhana'

Agra, Sept. 13 -- The high-powered management committee, constituted on Supreme Court orders, has directed a special audit of the Banke Bihari temple's movable and immovable assets covering a three-ye... Read More


Dhannipur mosque project: 5-acre site 'not enough', trust scouts for more land

LUCKNOW, Sept. 13 -- Nearly six years after the Supreme Court's 2019 verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi case paved the way for a mosque on a five-acre plot in Dhannipur village, Ayodhya, the Indo-Islamic ... Read More