Murakami’s newest short story collection, Men Without Women: Stories, released in English translation in May, is, like most of his other works, laden with his signature themes of melancholy, alienation, infidelity, and introspection. Yet again, one dreams, and happily so, of inhabiting a world where cats talk and women disappear without notice where the real seems unreal, and the meaning of reason is effortlessly lost. There’s always an inexplicable sense of anticipation every time a new Haruki Murakami book comes out. ‘The Story of India’s Cheetahs’: How the cheetah went from being hunter to hunted.When CV Raman denied a student admission in IISc because she was a woman.From Odisha to Kerala, a bus of climate migrants.Why Nepal’s PM Prachanda wants to make up with India. ‘A Boundless Fear Gripped Me’ brings painful accounts of the marginalised from the Covid-19 lockdown.Watch: Plane carrying musicians continues flying after cargo door opened in mid-air.The advice that turned Sikandar Kher’s career: ‘Get on the train, even if it’s in the last bogie’.A British photographer captures the Indian phenomenon of men non-romantically holding hands.‘Vajpayee’: This biography uncovers facts and examines myths with rare nuance and incisiveness.‘Is Manipur part of India or not?’: Ex-CM urges PM Narendra Modi to speak out on violence.Mumbai: Loan fraud case against BJP leader closed.Watch: Actor Dharmendra joins grandson Karan Deol in a dance to an old hit song from his own film.
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