Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel

BY Stephen King “I’ve always considered myself to be, basically, a lucky person.” That’s the first line of Tana French’s extraordinary new novel, “The Witch Elm,” and much of what follows is a meditation on luck — the good, the bad and the extremely ugly. Here’s a things-go-bad story Thomas Hardy could have written in […]

Guy Gunaratne’s novel shows that not just London, the world is Mad and Furious right now

This debut novel, about race and rift, is on the Booker longlist for 2018

By: Nayantara Mazumder London, according to one of the narrators of In Our Mad and Furious City, “taints its young”. The author of this debut novel, Guy Gunaratne, imagines a city in which war cries by racists and fascists after an off-duty, white soldier is murdered by a black, Muslim youth have spread like wildfire […]

How old are our emotions?

A professor of neuroscience traces them within the context of life and evolution

By: Deeptanil Ray Where do feelings originate in life? Or, if the question can be rephrased: why do feelings happen, or seem to happen, in the inner mental worlds of humans and other creatures, especially when we are not looking for them? Do bacteria “feel”? For ancient Stoics like Chrysippus, as well as for the […]

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY : LET US END MENTAL HEALTH DISCRIMINATION

A society that respects and protects basic, civil, political, and cultural rights is needed to also promote mental health.

By: Dr. Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his/ her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. World Mental Health Day established by World Federation for Mental Health […]

Stories from across the border

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By: Jatin Desai Sarvat Hasin’s second book You Can’t Go Home Again is unique in many ways. She was born in London and grew up in Karachi. Through seven short interlinked stories she narrates in detail the lives of a group of teenagers of Karachi. Through them, she talks about the lives and aspirations of […]

Revisiting career advancement of school teachers

By: Rayees Masroor All professions offer their recruits the opportunity of pursuing a career, in the sense that individuals can be promoted through a clearly delineated promotions hierarchy. This aspect of career is referred to as ‘vertical mobility dimension’. Promotion is regarded as the passage to a higher rank and is one of the ways […]

Write Beautiful!

BY: Shujaat Hussain Rather The coming into being of the authorship makes up the world of notion—a senseful being. Those aspire to have it can fangle a new world. The core of the authorship has got to set up that tasty hunky-dory line. It splashes across souls everywhere. The more you bend to the goal […]

Stories from across the border

By: Jatin Desai Sarvat Hasin’s second book You Can’t Go Home Again is unique in many ways. She was born in London and grew up in Karachi. Through seven short interlinked stories she narrates in detail the lives of a group of teenagers of Karachi. Through them, she talks about the lives and aspirations of […]

Where has the neighbourhood GP gone?

The general practitioner has become endangered. Is that the reason for countrywide medical bedlam?

By: Upala Sen He was what they called in those days a “lampha” doctor. We are talking about Bengal of the late 1800s. The appellation lampha derived from Dr Sachindranath Sen’s LMF degree — he had passed the Licentiate Examination of the Medical Faculty from Calcutta’s Campbell Medical School. Lampha was also a reference to […]