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Cover photo of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: India@75 edited by Surendra Kumar (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | India@75: Talking heads take stock, list challenges

This book rings together an unusual collection of politicians, diplomats, journalists, artistes, economists and...

27 Nov 2022 1:22 AM IST

Cover photo of Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Love tangles with family as Great Calcutta Killings rage

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s transition from mythology to history has been felicitous. If her previous novel, The...

27 Nov 2022 1:15 AM IST

Representational photo (DC Photo)

Jaipur Literature Festival to organise Jaipur Music Stage

HYDERABAD: The Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 is all set to bring a range of exhilarating performers to the Jaipur...

25 Nov 2022 4:54 PM IST

A landmark Urdu classic known for its radical, experimental form and savage honesty, Paradise uses the idiom of food, cuisine and eating to tell the story of a middle-class Muslim joint family over a span of fifty years. Facebook

Khalid Jawed-'s novel wins JCB Lit Prize

Hyderabad: Celebrated Urdu litterateur Khalid Jawed's novel The Paradise of Food, translated by Baran Farooqi, has...

20 Nov 2022 10:48 AM IST

Cover photo of Black River by Nilanjana S. Roy (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The soul of a river, poured into saga of fatherhood and...

Royâ€™s success lies in the fact that it is actually comforting to read her work not just for the clarity but also the...

20 Nov 2022 1:28 AM IST

Cover photo of The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980sâ€™...

Thereâ€™s a disquieting view of the countryâ€™s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

20 Nov 2022 1:21 AM IST

Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)

Book Review | Whoâ€™s afraid of growing old?

The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

20 Nov 2022 1:02 AM IST

Ruskin Bond at an interaction with children in Hyderabad on Thursday.

No dearth of readers despite social media proliferation: Ruskin Bond

Mussoorie: Good books continue to receive appreciation from readers despite the proliferation of social media and other...

16 Nov 2022 4:33 PM IST

Cover photo of The War Diary of Asha-San by Lt Bharati Asha Sahay Choudhry (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Diary of 17-yr-old girl of Netajiâ€™s INA evokes...

Patriotism is a dirty word in India nowadays. Patriots are considered at par with jingoists, fanatics, right-wingers,...

13 Nov 2022 1:54 AM IST

The building of the library now wears a look of an enormous bookshelf besides which a girl can be seen avidly reading a book. (Photo: Twitter/@KTRTRS)

National Library Week celebrations from tomorrow

VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh will celebrate the 55th National Library Week from Monday to November 20. Making the...

13 Nov 2022 1:29 AM IST

Cover photo of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Narrating the Lankan experience in guise of a...

It is 1989. A brutal civil war is tearing Sri Lanka apart. Maali Almeida, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s...

13 Nov 2022 1:05 AM IST

Each shortlisted book is representative of the incredible variety and strength of the non-fiction narratives emerging from our multi-layered society. (Photo By Arrangement)

Five books shortlisted for Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize

HYDERABAD: The fifth edition of the prestigious Kamaladevi Chattopadyay NIF Book Prize, which recognizes and celebrates...

8 Nov 2022 3:21 PM IST