Somak Ghoshal
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A ramble through writer Shanta Gokhale's personal Bookland | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Early on in Of Ancestors and Friends: A Life with Books, writer and translator Shanta Gokhale sets the stage by welcoming the reader for a “ramble through my personal Bookland”. Like Alice’s chaotic adventures in Wonderland, the preamble foretells a whimsical tour of crowded bookshelves, led by Gokhale—sparkling, sagacious, and sharp, but also intensely human in her analysis of the great works of literature across t
Are fun AI trends on social media worth their environmental cost? | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Recently, social media users around the world were swept up in a trend of revisiting the 1980s using AI-generated images of themselves. As with the Studio Ghibli trend, this too was treated like harmless fun, though its unseen impact is far more serious. In the case of the Ghibli makeover, issues of copyright and plagiarism led the protests against public misuse of AI tools. Less talked about was the cost of energy,
Empty rhetoric and hollow jargon don't offer much hope in this anthology | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2018, Goethe Institut and Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB), Mumbai launched an interdisciplinary project, titled State of Nature, to spark creative and scholarly exchanges on the ongoing climate crisis. Led by artist and environmentalist Ravi Agarwal and poet and writer Ranjit Hoskote, the idea was to bring together experts and practitioners from different fields to curate interventions that reflected on humanity’s shift
How Baroda's MS University became the alma mater of India's finest artists | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 1949, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda (now Vadodara) in Gujarat, founded a unique institution. The Maharaja Sayajirao University, or MS University (MSU) as it is commonly known, was free from the baggage of the past. Unlike Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan, West Bengal, or the JJ School of Art in Mumbai, MSU had a relatively clean slate to build its curricula, faculty a
Franz Kafka's last novel ‘The Castle’ evokes the terrifying reality of our lives now | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One hundred years ago, driven by an act of pure love and a deep-seated faith in the power of genius, writer Max Brod published what turned out to be the last novel Franz Kafka worked on before his death in 1924. Das Schloss, or The Castle in English translation (the German word also means “lock”), remains one of the German master’s most enigmatic endeavours, a peculiarly twisted tale of alienation and absurdism like
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