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Author Krishna Udayasankar on 'The Cowherd Prince', the prequel to her trilogy series 'The Aryavarta Chronicles'

Krishna Udayasankar dives into the origin story of Govinda in ‘The Cowherd Prince'

Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek on how she uses theatre as a licence to seize speech

Her latest play, ‘On the Royal Road’, a scathing indictment of ‘Trump the Emperor’, will hit Indian shelves in November

Triumph of Hindutva movement would mark end of ‘Indian idea’: Tharoor

The Hindutva movement is the “mirror image” of the Muslim communalism of 1947 and its triumph would mark the end of the Indian idea, says senior

British Indian author Anita Anand’s Jallianwala Bagh story shortlisted for history prize

‘The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj’ will compete with six others for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2020.

Watch | Tahira Kashyap Khurrana speaks on her latest book

A video of Tahira Kashyap speaking to The Hindu Weekend on her latest book The 12 commandments of Being a Woman

‘I am a pretty unfiltered person’: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana on her latest book, 'The 12 Commandments of Being a Woman'

They have all kinds of flaws but you simply must love your in-laws, says author and filmmaker Tahira Kashyap Khurrana whose latest book is filled with outrageously candid revelations

Soumitra Ranade’s new book ‘Bhrigu and the Palace of Mirrors’ is a gateway to two worlds

A few years ago, Soumitra Ranade was taking a long walk through the passageway of Lucknow’s Bhool Bhulaiya, fascinated by its architectural marvel. He

Author Usha Rajagopalan looks back at her childhood in the company of animals in ‘The Zoo in My Backyard’

Usha Rajagopalan reminisces about her family and their assortment of wild animals as pets while growing up in Thiruvananthapuram in the book

Words of reflection: How Lockdown Journal Chennai showcased local writers

The online platform chronicled the mood of people during these unprecedented times

A canine calling with ‘Dog Tails’

In ‘Dog Tails’, Radha Thomas shares her journey from being an accidental dog lover to a crusader for the cause of strays

Louise Glück | The revenge against circumstance

The Nobel laureate writes about life and its harshness with ‘austere beauty’

Arun Kolatkar in Chennai

Improbably enough, Arun Kolatkar once lived briefly in Madras, painting and hawking clay pots between 1955 and 1957

Mamta Nainy’s lockdown reading list of comfort books

For this week’s Reading List, A Brush with Indian Art author Mamta Nainy picks four books that are sensitive, warm and offer a sense of comfort

Watch | 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

A video on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature which was awarded to American poet Louise Glück

American poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

She is the fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize this year.

Why I gave my child a hacksaw

Books are like toolboxes for a child’s mind, writes Twinkle Khanna, as her Tweak Books launches When I Grow Up I Want To Be... featuring lawyer Afroz Shah, social worker Sudha Murthy and others

David and Nicola Yoon launch Young Adult imprint for people of colour

They are calling the imprint Joy Revolution and plan to release the first books in 2022.

In this book, Shahneila Saeed offers a fun and enlightening way to raise a technology genius

UK-based educator Shahneila Saeed’s new book ‘How To Raise a Tech Genius’ details the deeper technology we should learn and teach coming generations, and why we should not be intimidated

Canadian-Taiwanese musician Ginalina launches her début book ‘The Mighty River’

The book talks about the importance of water bodies and introduces children to the animals and plants of British Columbia

U.S. senators, citing Uighurs, urge Netflix to drop planned Chinese sci-fi series

In the letter to Netflix, senators said the company's decision to adapt Liu Cixin's work amounted to “normalisation” of the Chinese government's “crimes.

Jnanpith given to Akkitham

A.K. Balan presented the Jnanpith, the country’s highest literary award, to Akkitham.

Oliver Jeffers to his daughter

The Irish writer’s latest picture book, What We’ll Build, explores a mighty partnership and offers hope in these uncertain times

Bilal Siddiqi and the escapist world of thrillers

Bilal Siddiqi delves into his new book, espionage thriller ‘The Phoenix’ that will soon be adapted into a film

The interpreter of loneliness: D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence, born 135 years ago this month, might be remembered chiefly for his candid exploration of sex, but his deepest concerns were about the isolation of the deracinated individual

Trepan Singh Chauhan — poet, novelist, social activist — touched the lives of lakhs of people

He led movements on a whole range of issues, from the right to information to welfare benefits for thousands of daily wage workers, and wrote the best-known novel on the Uttarakhand movement

‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead

Winston Groom died in Alabama town.

Barack Obama's memoir 'A Promised Land' coming out in November

First volume of the memoir will be released two weeks after U.S. elections

Perumal Murugan’s novel ‘Poonachi’ makes it to longlist of U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature

In 2018, his novel One Part Woman (translated from Madhorubagan) was on the longlist.

Stories of the Melghat Forest by a forester

For Prakash Thosre, being posted in the Melghat forest triggered a passion for writing on all that he saw: grass-eating tigers, the bhulan vel climber that makes you lose sense of direction, and mini markets that serve up spicy local food

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