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'They Will Shoot You, Madam': Insights into insurgencies affecting India

November 22, 2025 11:01 am

Harinder Baweja dips into her four-decade-long journey, which includes interviews with wanted terrorists and senior politicians

'Indian English writing is very inferior...': Author Jeyamohan on language, Salman Rushdie

December 03, 2025 1:17 pm

A true writer must be a humble instrument for their native language and draw from India's cultural soil to challenge mainstream narratives, says Jeyamohan in this interview.

Rajwanti Mann’s book unearths  banned texts on Jallianwala Bagh

November 16, 2025 9:21 am

The works include poems, plays and eyewitness’ accounts describing the brutality inflicted on civilians. Among the accounts, there is the testimony of Ratan Devi, a widow who spent the night beside the bodies in Jallianwala Bagh. The

From Le15 to Literature: Pastry chef Pooja Dhingra launches her first children’s book

November 16, 2025 10:32 am

Pastry chef Pooja Dhingra turns to fiction and for the first time, writes for children, folding in butter and sugar and dreams, as she talks about her journey

Joe Hill's 'King Sorrow': A humdinger of a horror tale that makes you think

November 13, 2025 8:05 pm

Joe Hill's latest is a 900-page horror epic where summoning a dragon seems easy, but feeding it costs everything

The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis: Why the idea of genius is broken — and what that means for us

November 13, 2025 9:41 pm

Drawing on examples from Galileo to Elon Musk, Helen Lewis examines how our obsession with lone geniuses blinds us to their dark side.

'It's taking up all my time now': Kareena Kapoor is currently reading this page turner

September 27, 2025 5:30 pm

Kareena also mentioned that when it comes to transformative books, she's not a fan. "I don't read those kinds of books," she added. 

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announced — and Kiran Desai is back

October 08, 2025 12:17 pm

Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: The 2025 Booker Prize shortlist features six novels, including Kiran Desai’s much-anticipated The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, alongside works by Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura and others.

What happens when Roald Dahl's Matilda grows up? Trauma, therapy, and real life

September 19, 2025 12:35 pm

Dahl’s neat ending disguised the messiness of real life. Childhood victories don’t erase scars.

A skeptic's guide to Colleen Hoover: What I discovered when I read her for myself

October 21, 2025 7:10 am

A reader's personal experiment with It Ends With Us reveals that the popular author's work is often mislabeled, tackling heavy themes like domestic violence and trauma under the guise of romance.

Exhibition highlights Satyajit Ray's visual artistry; gives rare peek into his book jacket designs

February 28, 2022 9:57 am

A new art exhibition, 'Ray between the Covers', features digital reprints of book jackets, illustrated and designed by Satyajit Ray

Journalist Revati Laul allegedly attacked by Gujarat riots convict

January 21, 2016 6:56 am

Ahmedabad, Jan 21 (ANI): A convict in the Gujarat riots case, out on parole, allegedly assaulted a journalist in Ahmedabad on Wednesday evening, when she met him for an interview. Revati Laul, who is writing a book on 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case convicts, alleged that she was punched and slapped by Suresh Chhara. She said she was questioning him at his house in the Naroda area of Ahmedabad during an interview. She added that she managed to escape after Chhara's son and some neighbours intervened. Laul was treated at a government hospital, and later she lodged a complaint at the Vejalpur police station.

Book 'Kalam ki cocktail' unveiled

January 10, 2016 3:44 pm

New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): Journalist and writer Sharda Shukla on Sunday unveiled her first book, 'Kalam Ki Cocktail' at Constitutional Club in the national capital.The author said the book is a compilation of a wide range of articles, from poetry to informative write-ups, on epic like Mahabharata. She said the book could be used as an encyclopaedia by readers.

She is charismatic. There's no two ways about it: Natwar Singh on Priyanka Gandhi

August 14, 2014 12:16 pm