books and publishing

Becoming a Maoist: Review of Vishwas Patil’s ‘Dudiya: In Your Burning Land’

The exploitation of Adivasis and the corresponding rise of Naxalism have been sensitively portrayed by the former IAS officer

Janhavi Acharekar

Poetry during chaos: Review of Hemant Divate’s poetry book ‘Paranoia’

Twinkle Khanna on her new book ‘Welcome to Paradise’, and on taking notes from conversations around her

Know thy neighbour | Review of Hema Sukumar’s ‘Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments’

Aamina Ahmad’s The Return of Faraz Ali and Louise Doughty’s A Bird in Winter prove why thrillers shine in the hands of women

Minister for Municipal Administration K.N.Nehru and Minister for School Education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi at a stall after inaugurating the book fair in Tiruchi on Thursday,.

Book fair opens in Tiruchi

Bahrisons, Delhi’s iconic book store in Khan Market is 70 and going strong

Guests Who Never Left: A guide to the green invaders around us

Writers like Alberto Manguel were in possession of at least 30,000 volumes.

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Shelving the idea of reading some books

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Review of Usha Priyamvada’s ‘Won’t You Stay, Radhika?’

Chittajit Mitra

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U.S. judge trims AI copyright lawsuit against Meta

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Down memory lane with Kerala’s pulp fiction writers

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The Hindu’s Bookshelf: It’s time to mix-it-up

Mumbai: April 05, 2020: BMC doctors taking samples of people who having cold and cough for testing of COVID19 in a clinic which is near by contaminated zone at Ambavadi in Dahisar in northern suburbs of Mumbai on Sunday. Photo Aadesh Choudhari.

Life and death and how doctors deal with real intimations of mortality everyday

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An excerpt from Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty’s The Assamese: A Portrait of a Community

Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty

The former Bookshop Jorbagh storefront (L), and the newly opened The Bookshop Inc (R)

The Bookshop Jorbagh journey: Delhi’s iconic bookstore closes its doors, but it’s not the end of the story

Hundreds of supporters of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto seen at open air prayer ceremony in Liaquat Gardens in downtown Rawalpindi. In front of ‘mourners’ lying on grass is the tricolour flag of the ‘Pakistan People’s Party.’

An excerpt from Tahira Naqvi’s, The History Teacher of Lahore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of various projects, in Ghaziabad on Friday.

New book on PM Modi’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ to be out soon

The Hindu Bureau

Meet the stars: A journey through 2023’s JCB Prize shortlist

Participants at one of Bound India’s retreats

Writers’ retreats are on the rise in India and storytellers are finding their muse — from Goa to Himachal

Directory of the Outsiders.

The ‘outsiders’ in death too

Preeti Zachariah

Sakina’s Kiss book by Vivek Shanbhag.

Vivek Shanbhag and the unbearable lightness of being

An image from the book on how to indentify na Endemic Vateria indica tree flowering branch.

Understanding the flora of the Western Ghats made easier with a pictorial manual

Author and activist Louise Meriwether, who wrote the novel ‘Daddy Was a Number Runner,' dies at 100

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