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Book review: For the Love of Stories by Wendy Doniger

A life richly lived Coincidentally enough, I am reading the memoirs of two eminent historians at the same time, Romila Thapar`s `Just Being` and this book I`m reviewing, Wendy Doniger`s `For the Love of Stories.` The former attends a talk by the latter and remarks that it was both entertaining and provocative. And that`s just…

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Feature: Into the feminiverse, women in Kdramas

Into the feminiverse Given that most of the hit Korean dramas (Kdramas) are written by women, the feminist gaze trained on both characters and stories comes as no surprise I began to watch Kdramas just this January.  Fifty-six Kdramas down, my one major takeaway is that it`s a world full of women. Sweet women, nasty…

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