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The author’s avid hunt for notes and ephemera secreted in secondhand editions is warm-hearted and infectiously funny

Presenting Chowdhury as one of the flag-bearers of the mid-20th century Indian modernism, the show attempts to trace how the artist has been willing to encounter the signs of human angst from his early works.

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Why is he still so intrigued by opium? ‘The plant has consistently out-thought, out-manoeuvred us,’ he says. ‘Its still playing a role in how history unfolds.’

The Padma Shri and Jnanpith Awardee novelist on his latest non-fiction book Smoke and Ashes, whose foundation was laid with the research for Ibis Trilogy, the far-reaching effects of opium trade and humankinds greatest challenges today.

Recently, Lebanon lived through two time zones at once. For years, however, novels have slowed time down, speeded it up, and travelled across past, present, and future.

The Bangladeshi writer charts the aftermath of life-altering wars and its scars on a people in the book

Authors dwell on vaccine, globalisation and science

Five writers for these times

a href= http://www.designcanberrafestival.com.au target= _blank DESIGN Canberra festival /a has announced five new exhibitions and a collaboration