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The novelist, who died last week, posed questions on identity that resonate to this day

If during the 80s and 90s you were any kind of book lover, Milan Kundera – who died this week aged 94 – was one of that small clutch of modern novelists you absolutely had to read. In the late stages of the Cold War, the Czech-born Kundera not only gave us news about what was

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris. He was 94. Kundera’s most famous work, ``The Unbearable Lightness

Protests over teacher recruitment point to widening gap between rising expectations and a political economy that cannot keep pace

The World Weekly

Continuing violence in Manipur is a grave matter. But the responsibility for rebuilding peace lies in Imphal and Delhi

Rege has a vast descriptive repertoire, is willing to take astonishing risks with structure, and is immaculate in her numerous interiority dives

Divided into three parts, the book provides a historical overview of the politics of agrarian protests

Milan Kundera revelled in shocking, in taking away the breath, and leaving nothing for granted. His prose did not entertain fools.

New NHS research reveals the direct effect of the cost of living crisis on people’s mental health. The most vulnerable must be protected, says journalist Dorothy Dunn