<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Ashutosh Kumar Thakur"><item><title>Tracing the investigations launched in the aftermath of the Pulwama disaster</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>On the 14th of February 2019 in Pulwama, a notified area council approximately 30 kilometres South of Srinagar, a radical and fundamentalist youth by the name of Adil Ahmed Dar rammed a blue coloured Maruti Eco car laden with close to 200 kilogram...</excerpt></item><item><title>Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The biography of Agyeya, “Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya,” which came last year July, chronicles his transformation from a revolutionary youth to a very controversial patron-saint of Hindi writing. Akshaya Mukul is the aut...</excerpt></item><item><title>MOHSINA KIDWAI’S MEMOIRS ARE REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>In “My Life in Indian Politics”, veteran Congress leader, former Union minister Mohsina Kidwai assesses not just her own contribution to public life, but also provides an honest appraisal of the turn in fortunes of the political party she has rema...</excerpt></item><item><title>‘AI for You: The New Game ChangeR’ provides introductory knowledge on AI</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Despite decades of philosophical and science-fiction discussion, artificial intelligence (AI) is now rapidly approaching reality. AI, as we all know, rose to prominence over the past ten years. With businesses like Google pouring billions of dolla...</excerpt></item><item><title>Wake Up Ali…Wake Up Now</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Lot many South Asian writers have written about the South Asian diasporic migration stories and have covered varied theme, including, but not limited to alienation, racial clashes, hybridity, third space, ambivalence, displacement etc. ‘Wake Up Al...</excerpt></item><item><title>‘3 Rays’ is one more testimony to Satyajit Ray’s genius</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Satyajit Ray was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955; The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy. As a director, Ray was ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Defying parental wishes, cultural expectations</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Jahnavi Barua belongs to that growing pantheon of Indian writers in the English language whose style is a new movement in literature that has quietly developed almost unseen over the past few decades. The story is mainly set in Assam and Bangalore...</excerpt></item><item><title>‘What the Heck&amp;#8230;’ is about living one’s life intentionally</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/what-the-heck-is-about-living-ones-life-intentionally/</link><pubDate>July 19, 2022, 5:38 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2a2ed320_10266_P_12_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Ravi Venkatesan reflects on how we need to make deliberate choices about who we are and what we do, rather than simply being carried along like a piece of driftwood.
</excerpt></item><item><title>‘REBIRTH’ IS AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE PASSIONATE BOND BETWEEN A MOTHER AND HER UNBORN CHILD</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>Jahnavi Barua belongs to that growing pantheon of Indian writers in the English language whose style is a new movement in literature that has quietly developed almost unseen over the past few decades. You certainly took your time to show up. Year ...</excerpt></item><item><title>‘Death Script’: A complete view of the Naxal insurgency in India</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/death-script-a-complete-view-of-the-naxal-insurgency-in-india/</link><pubDate>June 24, 2022, 5:45 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/47218d55_9748_P_1_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, the author meditates on the larger questions of violence and betrayal, sin and redemption, and what it means to live through and write about such experiences.
</excerpt></item><item><title>‘The Living Mountain’ is a beautifully told story within the structure of a fable</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-living-mountain-is-a-beautifully-told-story-within-the-structure-of-a-fable/</link><pubDate>June 10, 2022, 6:51 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/811debdc_9552_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The book is filled with amazing black ink illustrations done by Devangana Dash in between the pages, and is a story of ‘Mahaparbat’, The Living Mountain, and indigenous valley dwellers who live near the mountain. Disaster unfolds when humans assau...</excerpt></item><item><title>HOW TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS IN TODAY’S WORLD</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/how-to-achieve-happiness-and-success-in-todays-world/</link><pubDate>April 15, 2022, 3:54 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/c478afec_8511_P_7_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>In ‘The Happiness Trail: A Road Map to Success’, author Ramesh Venkateswaran proposes five building blocks for reconciling happiness and success.
</excerpt></item><item><title>‘The Odd Book Of Baby Names’ Captures The Essence Of Dysfunctional Family</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-odd-book-of-baby-names-captures-the-essence-of-dysfunctional-family/</link><pubDate>February 25, 2022, 8:06 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/56b27080_7973_P_1_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The book by Anees Salim chronicles the life of a dying patriarch told from the point of view of his eight children, who think of their father in different ways, some with bitterness, some with love, some with admiration, and some with indifference.
</excerpt></item><item><title>UNDERSTANDING THE IGNORED ‘FACES OF INEQUALITY’</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/understanding-the-ignored-faces-of-inequality/</link><pubDate>January 28, 2022, 7:52 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/eec899e7_7668_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Tucked away in the margins of this book is a glimpse of actual India. It’s a compilation of articles based on serious research by journalist Pradeep Baisakh.</excerpt></item><item><title>THE HAUNTING TALE OF A GRAND CITY AND ITS WOMEN</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-haunting-tale-of-a-grand-city-and-its-women/</link><pubDate>January 7, 2022, 7:12 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Untitled-design-6.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>‘The Begum and the Dastan’ takes you on a journey. It masterfully develops and conjures the scene, transporting you in time and allowing you to become a part of the lives of its characters.
</excerpt></item><item><title>AMITAV GHOSH TRACES CLIMATE CRISIS BACK TO THE DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLD</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/amitav-ghosh-traces-climate-crisis-back-to-the-discovery-of-new-world/</link><pubDate>November 12, 2021, 7:50 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7e56dad1_6035_P_1_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>In The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Ghosh connects the origins of our current climate crisis to Western colonialism’s ruthless exploitation of human life and the natural world.</excerpt></item><item><title>Delving deep into the socio-political situation of West Bengal</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>What we know as history is not always a true retelling of the past—and often, history is hidden by falsehoods and a complete whitewashing of facts. With his debut book Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre, journalist and write...</excerpt></item><item><title>An unmissable love story set in Mughal times</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/literature/tracing-the-investigations-launched-in-the-aftermath-of-the-pulwama-disaster/</link><pubDate>May 29, 2023, 3:11 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/untitleddesign-2023-05-26t183629-381-1685105455-e1685310050275-199x300.jpg</image><category>Literature</category><excerpt>The Romance of Roopmati and Baz Bahadur Malathi Ramachandran Niyogi Books, Rs 395 Mandu is a perfect set up of historical tale and fiction as perceived by author Malathi Ramachandran. The book is a glimmering imagination and magnificence materiali...</excerpt></item></author></feed>