#Books

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar on how a misquote and a misunderstanding ended his political career

19 Dec 2024 3:50 PM IST

Murzban Shroff

Muses Over Mumbai review: Portrait of a metropolis caught between mayhem and bonhomie

18 Dec 2024 2:10 PM IST

Aakriti Mandhwani

How middlebrow Hindi magazines mirrored zeitgeist of post-Independence India

8 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST

Reservation Policy in India review: A long, uneven road to social justice

Reservation Policy in India review: A long, uneven road to social justice

6 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST

Shah Rukh Khan: Legend, Icon, Star review: Biography dives into the making of a demigod

3 Dec 2024 6:30 AM IST

Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism by Ramachandra Guha

Speaking with Nature review: Ramachandra Guha traces roots of Indian environmental thought

2 Dec 2024 2:40 PM IST

Mohinder Amarnath, Fearless book

Mohinder Amarnath launches his book 'Fearless: A Memoir'

29 Nov 2024 10:16 AM IST

Books signed by Gandhi, Tagore; some 200 years old: Bengaluru store boasts rare gems

Books signed by Gandhi, Tagore; some 200 years old: Bengaluru store boasts rare gems

25 Nov 2024 6:03 PM IST

Muzaffar Ali

Muzaffar Ali interview: ‘I’ve always admired the free spirit, indigenous traits of horses’

25 Nov 2024 2:00 PM IST

South Korea’s women writers: Nobel Prize-worthy, and unapologetically experimental

South Korea’s women writers: Nobel Prize-worthy, and unapologetically experimental

28 Oct 2024 6:24 AM IST

Voters have spoken, but how fiction portrays the beauty and horror of Kashmir

Voters have spoken, but how fiction portrays the beauty and horror of Kashmir

10 Oct 2024 2:43 PM IST

The Enclave

The Enclave review: Love and longing in Bombay of the naughty noughties

23 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST

Booker Prize 2024

Booker Prize 2024: Six novels on shortlist delve into ‘fault lines of our times’, five by women

17 Sept 2024 7:40 AM IST

Libgen-Internet Archive

Why the fate of LibGen, Internet Archive matters, and what it says about open knowledge

10 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST

JCB Prize for Literature

2024 JCB Prize for Literature: Longlist split evenly between English novels, translations

8 Sept 2024 6:30 AM IST

Priyanka Mattoo

Priyanka Mattoo interview: ‘Losing someone over Kashmir was more painful, it affects everything’

25 Aug 2024 12:36 PM IST

Non-fiction books on Partition

Eight non-fiction books that capture the tragedy and trauma of Partition, and its aftermath

15 Aug 2024 10:22 PM IST

In Pursuit of Freedom

How the wounds of Partition have fuelled communal tension in Godhra since 1947

15 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST

Partition Novels

16 essential books of fiction on Partition: Stories of loss, barbarity, survival, and hope

15 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST

How fiction writers capture the infinite possibilities of multiverse

How fiction writers capture the infinite possibilities of multiverse

13 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST

The Company of Violent Men

The Company of Violent Men review: An unfiltered account of reporting from conflict zones

12 Aug 2024 8:10 AM IST

The Many Lives of Syeda X

The Many Lives of Syeda X review: Powerful portrait of India’s hapless migrants, helpless poor

11 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST

Muhammad Yunus

Four essential books by Nobel laureate and Bangladesh interim PM Muhammad Yunus

8 Aug 2024 3:48 PM IST

Why shared reading is the new bonding language for book worms

Why shared reading is the new bonding language for book worms

7 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST

How award-winning writer Jamuna Bini is popularising tales of Arunachal Pradesh through Hindi

How award-winning writer Jamuna Bini is popularising tales of Arunachal Pradesh through Hindi

1 Aug 2024 6:30 AM IST

Booker Prize 2024

Booker Prize 2024 longlist: 13 books explore ‘what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return’

31 July 2024 8:20 AM IST

Kamal Haasan

‘Pushpak’: How Kamal Haasan’s silent comedy satirised standard romantic story

11 July 2024 6:30 AM IST

Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada

Shahu Patole interview: How ‘Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada’ links food with caste system

7 July 2024 2:40 PM IST

Metamorphoses: In Search of Kafka

How Kafka’s fraught relationship with his father shaped his writing

26 Jun 2024 6:30 AM IST

Jassa Ahluwalia

Jassa Ahluwalia interview: ‘None of us are half anything. We’re all whole, multiple beings’

19 Jun 2024 6:30 AM IST

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