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- Sep 18, 2026
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Back in the ’80s: Poonam Saxena on what the AI filters can’t capture (opens the original)
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I’ve been looking at the ’80s throwbacks, of what people looked like or might have looked like then, and it’s been fun to see the big hair, vivid makeup and padded shoulders. But I couldn’t help but think: how little these trends capture of that era. Middle-class Indian cities were an entirely different world then. Let me fill in the rest of the picture for you. In offices, computers were still years away. We used typewriters for everything. There were sleek portable ones for personal use, while
Chalk and awe: A Teachers' Day tribute by Poonam Saxena (opens the original)
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In these days of doomscrolling, I often crave a short story or novel that will warm the heart. If I can’t find one from recent times, fiction often being as gloomy as the times it’s written in, I go back to old favourites, to feel at least momentarily uplifted. Rin (Debt) is one such short story, particularly apt for Teachers’ Day (September 5). The writer, Badiuzzaman (1928 - 1986), was introduced to me by his son, Shazi Zaman, a journalist and accomplished Hindi writer himself. He gave me a vo
Crossover tales: Poonam Saxena writes on lesser-known Partition stories (opens the original)
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The success of the Hindi film Main Vaapas Aaunga, now in theatres, featuring Naseeruddin Shah and Diljit Dosanjh, has everyone talking about Partition-era literature again. Familiar names have resurfaced, chief among them that of the iconic Saadat Hasan Manto. But there are many other writers whose work, while not primarily centred on Partition, tackled the theme in their own ways. In my previous column, I mentioned Phanishwar Nath Renu (1921 - 1977), the writer from Purnea in Bihar, whose short
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