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

Susan Joe Philip

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

Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri receiving the Jnanpith award.

Jnanpith given to Akkitham

Abdul Latheef Naha

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

Interview Bilal Siddiqi and the escapist world of thrillers

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

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

Lawrence clicked by Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1915.

Essay The interpreter of loneliness: D.H. Lawrence

Argha Kumar Banerjee 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

Illustration: R. Rajesh

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

Shankar Gopalakrishnan 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

Photo: nationalbook.org

Perumal Murugan’s ‘Poonachi’ makes it to National Book Award longlist

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

A book of short stories on the lockdown

In Conversation Books

In Conversation ‘We are great competition for the tortoise in matters of change’: Anuradha Roy

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World Rivers Day Authors

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

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

Jnanpith given to Akkitham

Oliver Jeffers to his daughter

Interview Books

Bilal Siddiqi and the escapist world of thrillers

The interpreter of loneliness: D.H. Lawrence

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

A book of short stories on the lockdown

Gayatri Gill’s debut book ‘The Day Before Today: Lockdown Stories’ is a narrative of the time we live in

‘Techpreneurs should build products that can enhance human connections’: Dr Vivek H Murthy

Former Surgeon-General of the United States of America, Dr Vivek H Murthy, discusses his book ‘Together’, and the far-reaching consequences of leaving a ‘loneliness pandemic’ undetected

Sunil P. Elayidom on what makes the ‘Mahabharata’ so compellingly modern

We should not allow the ancient epic to be hijacked by Hindutva, says the Malayalam scholar

‘We are great competition for the tortoise in matters of change’: Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy found whimsical connections between the personal and the political as she researched her novel, ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’, now shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020

Ayyappa Paniker: The satirist who sang love songs

On the 90th birth anniversary of Ayyappa Paniker, poet-critic-academic, and the father of modernism in Malayalam literature

“He is the seer of cricket”: Jatin Paranjape on his father Vasoo

Former India player and current national cricket selector, Jatin Paranjape on the making of the book Cricket Drona, a tribute to his father, Vasoo Paranjape, by some of India’s biggest names in the game

Cat Deeley’s book of joy

TV personality and now author Cat Deeley says her first book for children — ‘The Joy in You’ — encourages self-expression and is a reminder to find pleasure in everyday things

Preeti Shenoy’s latest book tells the story of two young adults figuring out love and life

A major theme in ‘When Love Came Calling’ is children trying to figure out their own paths while dealing with parental pressure

Watch | Author Hari Kunzru on his new novel, 'The Red Pill'

A video on British novelist Hari Kunzru talking about his novel, 'The Red Pill'

Novelist Hari Kunzru’s portrait of the moment

The British novelist talks about his new novel, Red Pill, and why writing this intense story of privacy, surveillance and paranoia was therapeutic

Pandemic plays muse for Kannada writer Amaresh Nugadoni

Danduga, a Kannada novel by Amaresh Nugadoni, will be released this month

‘For a Buddhist, curiosity and inquiry are essential to practice’: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

The head of the Dalai Lama Center at MIT, Tenzin Priyadarshi, believes that one should approach the spiritual path with the desire to be a seeker rather than a teacher

Author Radha Nair on her book ‘Breaking The Cocoon @ 40’

Radha Nair’s ‘Breaking The Cocoon @ 40’ is a delightful collection of select events from her life, which also holds a mirror to the time the incidents are set in

Book on Jaipur royals brings alive stories of forbidden love and forged wills

In ‘The House of Jaipur’, Australian author John Zubrzycki lifts the veil on the life and legacy of Sawai Man Singh II and Gayatri Devi

Julia Reed, chronicler of Southern life and food, dies a 59

Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died. She was 59. Reed died Friday of

How Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi became a children’s book

Interpreting Perumal Murugan’s fable about a goat as a picture book is yet another successful experiment from illustrator Priya Kuriyan

Parveen Babi through the lens of 2020

Karishma Upadhyay’s biography of the movie star comes at a time when mental health in Bollywood is dominating headlines

Art illustrations on the pandemic

Manjulika Pramod’s book Kaleidoscope of Cheer and Hope documents the lockdown in 50 illustrations

Noted Indo-English poet passes away

Noted Indo-English poet, novelist and critic T.Vasudeva Reddy(76), popularly known as T.V. Reddy, breathed his last at Ruia hospital in Tirupati on

From a school kitchen, Bengali writer Manoranjan Byapari can now work among his real love – books

West Bengal government accepts his petition to relieve him of his job as a school cook and decides to transfer him to a library at Amtala in South 24 Parganas district.

‘Contagion is not an abstract concept, but a social process’: Adam Kucharski

British epidemiologist Adam Kucharski’s book, ‘The Rules of Contagion’, breaks down the whys and hows of a pandemic into relatable parallels

The men who misled cricket

Forty stories about cricket controversies from around the world

Bloomsbury UK pressure led to withdrawal of Delhi riots book, says author

The right to freedom of speech and expression had been denied, she states

Anand Neelakantan: I love history, it is so full of lies

Author Anand Neelankantan discusses ‘Chaturanga’, the second book in the ‘Baahubali’ prequel trilogy, in which he traces the journeys of young Sivagami and Kattappa

Author Sudha Murty announces new collection of stories on 70th birthday

The book, scheduled to be released in November, is titled ‘Grandparents’ Bag of Stories’.

Who are the Kodavas? A riddle that ethnologists are yet to crack, says P.T. Bopanna

Author PT Bopanna says while there are a number of theories on who the Kodavas are, none are scientific enough to establish the origin of the race

‘My people have no skin tone’: author Jeff Kinney on his new book and writing inclusively

Promoting his newest book, author Jeff Kinney talks about writing inclusively with diverse characters

Writer Gavish Hiremath passes away

Mr. Hiremath was honoured with Karnataka Lalitakala Academy Award (1995).

Two friends launch Reading Room Co., an online publication platform for budding authors and poets

Shruthi Dileep and Richu Jain want to encourage new writers in Indian English

Abir Mukherjee: ‘Using the crime novel to discuss social issues is in our blood’

The Scottish Bengali author, whose latest book features a classic locked room murder, says the detective with access to all levels of society is the perfect tool to study the human condition

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ author talks Vikings and wilderness

Ahead of the Indian TV premiere of ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’, the series’ author Cressida Cowell recalls the real-life Isle of Berk

‘Desire crosses borders of different kinds’: Akhil Katyal

The editors of a recent anthology of queer poetry from South Asia discuss how they unpacked fixities to put their book together

Here’s why penning ‘What’s Wrong With You, Karthik?’ took six years

Former sports journalist Siddhartha Vaidyanathan's first novel is on a young boy’s struggles and successes in an all-boys’ school in Bengaluru of the ‘90s

Sadia Dehlvi loved to explore the unexplored

She often criticised the separation of religion from spirituality

Writer and activist Sadia Dehlvi dies aged 63

Sadia, who hailed from the royal ‘Shama’ family, edited Bano, an Urdu women’s journal

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91

Grau won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for her fourth book, ‘The Keepers of the House’

Ruskin Bond celebrates 70 years of storytelling with ‘A Song Of India’

In this book, the fourth in his memoir series, the author looks back on the year he went away to the UK at 16 to begin his writing journey

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S.P. Balasubrahmanyam in 2011.

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Liu Zongyi, a scholar at the Shanghai Institute of International Studies.

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