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Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of The Cell is a beautifully crafted exposition of the author's own lifelong fascination with the subject
Covid, climate change, misinformation and Fourth Industrial Revolution have created a perfect storm that needs new paradigm for leadership. Faisal Hoque's Lift offers insights into what that would be
Eminent Indologist Wendy Doniger's latest book focuses on the final days of the protagonists of the epic and makes their stories come alive with different meanings
Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award
Aanchal Malhotra evocatively recreates the emotional responses of survivors and subsequent generations
A collection of youthful letters from her year in the country hints at the ideas that eventually shape Wendy Doniger's research and prolific writing
With this expansive chronicle of South India between the sixth and 12 centuries, Anirudh Kanisetti seeks to challenge the North India-centric approach in textbooks and academia
Everyone and their editor is convinced that we want to know exactly what they were reading this year.
Who wants to read about disease, or be reminded of one's mortality, during a pandemic?
The idea of literary agents is still new to authors in India. A few are leading the wave here, compared to a few thousands in the UK
The list has been collated by a panel of writers, curators and critics to select the 100 English language 'Novels That Shaped Our World'
Dasgupta talks about what it means to be the director of a major literary prize and his new book
Traditional publishers and authors might rail against this open violation of intellectual property rights, but many authors appreciate the compliment embedded in piracy
The Book Fairies have put out over 1,000 books across India since they started in March
A novel, in the end, is nothing more than a bunch of fabrications told around a kernel of truth