#Books

Umar Khalid

JNU cancels discussion on Umar Khalid’s book a day before scheduled event

9 Aug 2026 2:39 PM IST

#MeToo & beyond: Shuma Raha’s book, The Sea has the Answers, uses a wife’s journey to reflect on society

#MeToo & beyond: Shuma Raha’s book, The Sea has the Answers, uses a wife’s journey to reflect on society

26 July 2026 1:18 PM IST

Why Kanupriya Dhingra’s The Sunday Book Bazaar is a bibliophiles ode to this iconic Delhi market

Why Kanupriya Dhingra’s The Sunday Book Bazaar is a bibliophile's ode to this iconic Delhi market

18 July 2026 3:53 PM IST

Nilanjan show

‘Love jihad’ is not about luring women, it’s about controlling them: Sameena Dalwai

27 Jun 2026 7:00 PM IST

In an era of dating apps and right swipes, why books continue to be relationship starters

In an era of dating apps and right swipes, why books continue to be relationship starters

26 Jun 2026 4:24 PM IST

Romila_Thapar

Why historian Romila Thapar’s memoir, Just Being, offers the possibility of a way of living life

8 Jun 2026 7:06 PM IST

Veteran translators discuss literary bridges

Why literary translators feel their work is finally getting its due in India

2 Jun 2026 3:39 PM IST

Perumal Murugan

The Land and the Shadows review: Perumal Murugan’s loving, unsparing history of Tamil cinema

9 May 2026 6:30 AM IST

Book Video

Migrant exodus during COVID-19 pandemic was a failure of the state I Jyoti Yadav interview

25 April 2026 3:25 PM IST

author-translator-books

World Book and Copyright Day: Why translators need equal billing with authors

22 April 2026 7:33 PM IST

Why residents of Keralas Thasarak village have been living with fictitious characters for decades

Why residents of Kerala's Thasarak village have been 'living' with fictitious characters for decades

20 April 2026 2:55 PM IST

2026 International Booker Prize

International Booker Prize shortlist: Six novels of exile, resistance and human defiance

2 April 2026 3:54 PM IST

Arundhati Roy

Mother Mary Comes to Me: How Arundhati Roy’s mother made and unmade her

29 March 2026 6:30 AM IST

Iran women novels

How two women writers portray Iran in International Booker Prize-longlisted novels

10 March 2026 6:30 AM IST

Army chief Naravane

Naravane book FIR: Illegal leak, copyright violation, or coercion? Experts explain

10 Feb 2026 7:18 PM IST

Manoj Naravane

As MM Naravane’s memoir sparks interest, his thriller makes it to Amazon bestseller lists

10 Feb 2026 3:21 PM IST

Japanese fiction

Healing fiction, café tales: How Japanese literature became a trend among young readers

8 Feb 2026 6:30 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi with Naravanes book four stars of destiny

Will Naravane’s memoir row trigger another prolonged stalemate in Parliament?

4 Feb 2026 8:08 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee SIR anxiety deaths book fair

110 died due to SIR anxiety, my poems on voters’ agony to be published at book fair: Mamata

22 Jan 2026 6:16 PM IST

Buddhist extremism

The Robe and the Sword review: How Asia's non-violent Buddhist monks became extremists

18 Jan 2026 6:30 AM IST

Books of 2026

2026 reading list: All the books everyone will be talking about this year

5 Jan 2026 1:23 PM IST

Vinod Kumar Shukla

Vinod Kumar Shukla, Hindi writer-poet, master of the minutiae of daily life, dies at 89

23 Dec 2025 7:41 PM IST

The Social Life of Indian Trains review: Amitava Kumar’s portrait of a Republic in motion

The Social Life of Indian Trains review: Amitava Kumar’s portrait of a Republic in motion

19 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST

Nepal-Ranjit Rae

What lies ahead for Nepal and Sushila Karki’s interim govt after the Gen Z uprising

11 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST

Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella, bestselling author of Shopaholic series of novels, dies at 55

10 Dec 2025 10:42 PM IST

A Sixth of Humanity

How India’s linguistic federalism shaped the conflict over a national language

2 Dec 2025 4:55 PM IST

How a chain of community-led libraries is reimagining public reading spaces in Delhi-NCR

How a chain of community-led libraries is reimagining public reading spaces in Delhi-NCR

1 Dec 2025 6:30 AM IST

Twinkle-Khanna

Twinkle Khanna’s Mrs Funnybones Returns breaks pattern of formulaic celebrity books

30 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST

The Eleventh Hour Salman Rushdie

The Eleventh Hour review: Rushdie returns to peak form with tales of decline and death

16 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST

Sabzi-Yasmin Khan

What Bloomsbury-Cornwall deli row over sabzi says about ownership of common food words

12 Nov 2025 6:30 AM IST

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