Books And Novels

A panoramic history of the cell

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

Leadership in a time of constant flux

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

Epic endings: Mahabharata's final chapters

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

Future of Hindi literature set to prosper: Booker winner Geetanjali Shree

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

Echoes of many partitions

Aanchal Malhotra evocatively recreates the emotional responses of survivors and subsequent generations

In light of India

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

A southern perspective of Indian history

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

Nobody likes lists

Everyone and their editor is convinced that we want to know exactly what they were reading this year.

Possibilities of escaping your room amid lockdown are endless. Read books

Who wants to read about disease, or be reminded of one's mortality, during a pandemic?

How book business middlemen become reliable doorkeepers to literary realm

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

Arundhati, Rushdie make it to BBC's 100 'Novels That Shaped Our World' list

The list has been collated by a panel of writers, curators and critics to select the 100 English language 'Novels That Shaped Our World'

Citizen of the world: Rana Dasgupta on state, cities and writing a book

Dasgupta talks about what it means to be the director of a major literary prize and his new book

Bootleg classics

Traditional publishers and authors might rail against this open violation of intellectual property rights, but many authors appreciate the compliment embedded in piracy

Treasure trove: Book lovers are leaving behind novels for perfect strangers

The Book Fairies have put out over 1,000 books across India since they started in March

The long and the short of it

A novel, in the end, is nothing more than a bunch of fabrications told around a kernel of truth