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Nirica Srinivasan

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Travelling far enough to meet oneself

What if you had the chance to ask for anything in the world—would you ask for endless adventure? When you make a deal with a demon, precise instructions are important—demons love a loophole.

06 October 2024, 03:02 IST

Travelling far enough to meet oneself

Travelling far enough to meet oneself

Travelling far enough to meet oneself

06 October 2024, 03:02 IST

Unmasking the real behind the virtual

The linguist Gretchen McCulloch, in his work, Because Internet, attempts to outline why we speak the way we do online. From popular use of acronyms, emojis, and punctuation — and, yes, memes — McCulloch draws a picture of how linguistic patterns emerge and develop in cyberspace.

17 August 2024, 19:47 IST

Unmasking the real behind the virtual

Unmasking the real behind the virtual

Unmasking the real behind the virtual

17 August 2024, 19:47 IST

Seeking meaning in cosmic chaos

In Kanan Gill’s Acts of God, we meet Dr K, a troubled genius with dubious motives, who holds in his hands a black box that contains a simulation of the universe.

20 April 2024, 22:25 IST

Seeking meaning in cosmic chaos

Seeking meaning in cosmic chaos

Seeking meaning in cosmic chaos

20 April 2024, 22:25 IST

When the reader plays the detective

Kate Reed Petty’s True Story also plays with form and story to question the ideas of truth, memory, and trauma.

16 December 2023, 23:57 IST

When the reader plays the detective

When the reader plays the detective

When the reader plays the detective

16 December 2023, 23:57 IST

In other rooms, other wonders

House of Shadows, written by Diane Meur and translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan, is an expansive historical novel set in the 1800s, in an ancestral house in Poland, and narrated by the house itself.

14 October 2023, 22:54 IST

In other rooms, other wonders

In other rooms, other wonders

In other rooms, other wonders

14 October 2023, 22:54 IST