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Shepherd dies of suspected tiger attack in Sawai Madhopur, villagers stage protest
1 year, 3 months ago

Shepherd dies of suspected tiger attack in Sawai Madhopur, villagers stage protest

Hindustan Times  

Citizens in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur on Tuesday staged a sit-in protest and blocked roads after a tiger allegedly killed a shepherd when he took his cattle to the forest for grazing. The incident occurred in village Khawa under Kundera police station limits when 45-year-old Babu Lal Gurjar took his goats for grazing in Ranthambore forest land around 10am on Monday. …

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The light/dark touch of Milan Kundera, MT at 90, celebrating the ‘Furies’ and more - The Hindu
1 year, 5 months ago

The light/dark touch of Milan Kundera, MT at 90, celebrating the ‘Furies’ and more - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. He told the American writer Philip Roth, who edited a series, Writers from the Other Europe, and promoted Kundera’s The Book of Laughter…, “if someone told me as a boy: One day you will see your nation vanish from the world, I would have considered it nonsense… but after the …

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Tribute | Milan Kundera’s works continue to suggest antidotes to abuse of power
1 year, 5 months ago

Tribute | Milan Kundera’s works continue to suggest antidotes to abuse of power

The Hindu  

Just as it was becoming fashionable to ask, ‘Is Milan Kundera relevant anymore?’, the writer, who passed away aged 94 last week, entered our consciousness again. “No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled,” Kundera wrote in The Joke, his first novel. He explained his technique to The Paris Review thus: “The …

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TRIBUTE | Milan Kundera (1929-2023): Explorer of life, death, and the unbearable lightness in between
1 year, 5 months ago

TRIBUTE | Milan Kundera (1929-2023): Explorer of life, death, and the unbearable lightness in between

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 15, 2023 19:46 IST - 12 MINS READ I was 20 when I first read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, too young to grasp the expanse of Milan Kundera’s intent, but impressionable enough to be wowed by his turn of phrase. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera’s 1984 novel, has come to enjoy a kind of …

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Daily Quiz | On Milan Kundera
1 year, 5 months ago

Daily Quiz | On Milan Kundera

The Hindu  

Daily Quiz | On Milan Kundera Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /5 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Which of Milan Kundera’s novels examines the feelings associated with returning home after being away for long? YES NO Answer : Ignorance SHOW ANSWER 2 / 5 | In 2019, the Czech Republic made …

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Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free
1 year, 5 months ago

Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free

LA Times  

During the late 1980s, when I was still living in New York, I used to pal around with a group of writers known as the Unbearables. The name came from a story one member had written, riffing on the title of Milan Kundera’s 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” This is not to say that Kundera, the Czech novelist …

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Milan Kundera obituary | A life spent in inventing stories, asking questions about everything
1 year, 5 months ago

Milan Kundera obituary | A life spent in inventing stories, asking questions about everything

The Hindu  

“We can never know what we want, because living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” As news spread on July 12 of the passing away of Milan Kundera, the great Czech existential writer, at 94, his readers began quoting from arguably his most well-known book, The …

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TRIBUTE | Milan Kundera (1929-2023): A writer who mixed philosophy and irony to explore human nature
1 year, 5 months ago

TRIBUTE | Milan Kundera (1929-2023): A writer who mixed philosophy and irony to explore human nature

The Hindu  

Kundera won accolades for depicting themes and characters that floated between the mundane reality of everyday life and the lofty world of ideas. Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera, who satirised totalitarian regimes and mixed dark irony with philosophical musings to explore the human condition, has died, a library he worked with said on July 12. Coming at a time when Czech …

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Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94
1 year, 5 months ago

Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Kundera’s renowned novel, ``The Unbearable …

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Milan Kundera, renowned but reclusive Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris at 94
1 year, 5 months ago

Milan Kundera, renowned but reclusive Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris at 94

Associated Press  

PARIS — Milan Kundera, the renowned but reclusive author whose dissident writings transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism and explorer of identity and the human condition, has died in Paris. “Milan Kundera was a writer who was able to reach generations of readers across all continents with his work and achieved world fame.” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala …

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Milan Kundera, Czech novelist known for ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ dies
1 year, 5 months ago

Milan Kundera, Czech novelist known for ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ dies

LA Times  

The award-winning Czech author Milan Kundera, whose legacy includes the novels “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “The Festival of Insignificance,” has died in Paris. “He left behind not only a remarkable work of fiction, but also an important work of essays.” Books Milan Kundera novel ‘The Festival of Insignificance’ coming in English Milan Kundera, the author best known for …

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Milan Kundera: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' author, dies in Paris aged at 94
1 year, 5 months ago

Milan Kundera: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' author, dies in Paris aged at 94

India TV News  

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ Kundera’s best-known novel, opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that was the author’s home until he moved to France in 1975. “Milan Kundera was a writer who was able to …

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Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

One of the new versions of five of Milan Kundera's works: The Art of the Novel. Writer Milan Kundera's fascinating books and life examined in new work, Fang Aiqing reports. With the recent Chinese language publication of the biography of Milan Kundera, A la recherche de Milan Kundera, readers now have a new way, aside from his best-sellers, to better …

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Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

One of the new versions of five of Milan Kundera's works: The Art of the Novel. Writer Milan Kundera's fascinating books and life examined in new work, Fang Aiqing reports. With the recent Chinese language publication of the biography of Milan Kundera, A la recherche de Milan Kundera, readers now have a new way, aside from his best-sellers, to better …

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Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

One of the new versions of five of Milan Kundera's works: Slowness. E-books of his representative works, including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke and Ignorance, have been available on major e-book platforms such as Kindle, WeChat Read and iGet since May 10. An audiobook of The Unbearable Lightness of Being was also launched on multiple domestic audio-sharing platforms, …

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Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

The cover of the newly published Chinese version of A la recherche de Milan Kundera, a rare biography of the author who shuns publicity. His Czech citizenship was restored in 2019 and the following year, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize for Literature, given by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague. However, A la recherche de …

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Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

One of the new versions of five of Milan Kundera's works: The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Translator of the biography, Wang Dongliang, French language professor at Peking University, won the literature translation award of the prestigious Lu Xun Literature Prize in 2007, for translating Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. The publication of Chemin's biography is just one of …

Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

One of the new versions of five of Milan Kundera's works: The Art of the Novel. Writer Milan Kundera's fascinating books and life examined in new work, Fang Aiqing reports. With the recent Chinese language publication of the biography of Milan Kundera, A la recherche de Milan Kundera, readers now have a new way, aside from his best-sellers, to better …

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Biography paints author in bearable lightness
2 years, 7 months ago

Biography paints author in bearable lightness

China Daily  

One of the new versions of five of Milan Kundera's works: The Art of the Novel. Writer Milan Kundera's fascinating books and life examined in new work, Fang Aiqing reports. With the recent Chinese language publication of the biography of Milan Kundera, A la recherche de Milan Kundera, readers now have a new way, aside from his best-sellers, to better …

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50% of disappearances in illegal mining zones
3 years, 1 month ago

50% of disappearances in illegal mining zones

Hindustan Times  

The Kundera and Talada ranges in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve accounted for half the 12 tigers gone missing since last year, wildlife watchers and forest department officials said on Thursday. Officials said six of the 12 tigers went missing between January 2020 and March 2021 from the Kundera and Talada ranges, spread across 125 sq km. Although forest department officials …

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