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Arunava Sinha

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Has an AI-authored story just won a literary prize? What does it mean for writing and books?

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By Arunava Sinha
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The elephant is so firmly in the room that the debate is no longer about whether Jamir Nazir’s story The Serpent in the Grove, the winner for the Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean region of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026, was in fact written by an AI agent using a Large Language Model. It is about whether a story written by such an LLM could actually convince a literary jury to give it a prize. If that is indeed the case, the implications are extraordinary.
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Experimental fiction: A river hatches a conspiracy with a tree to transform human civilisation

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By Arunava Sinha, Krishnopriyo Bhattacharya
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Everyone goes to Lampati to listen to stories, to learn from fables, or to seek a way to avert a danger. It’s even whispered that Lampati was a rock in the life just before his current one as a tree. Although he doesn’t have direct control over this part of the world in social or political or cultural terms, Lampati is effectively the undeclared monarch of Tadingdong. He may not feature in everyday activities, yet he’s everywhere.
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‘Harmful from the perspective of health, economics’: Why chemist PC Ray (1861-1944) abhorred tea

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By Arunava Sinha, Prafulla Chandra Ray
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A century ago, Lord Macaulay had expressed a fine desire on observing us: “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” Macaulay’s farsightedness must be commended, for why else should the resolve of 1833 take the form that it has today in India, and particularly in West Bengal?
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