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Decoding Edgar Allan Poe and his Cryptography

January 20, 2026 1:48 pm

After 217 years of his birth, Poe's life remains a mystery yet to be unravelled for many. More like his cryptographic interests.

For Vivek Shanbhag, the problem lies in incoherence. (File Photo)

‘Good translation? For whom’: Vivek Shanbhag on India’s loudest literary story

January 20, 2026 1:48 pm

Writers may respond to one another personally, but institutionally the dots remain unconnected. The absence of cross-linguistic dialogue is a structural flaw.

Mahasweta Devi's fiction resists the smoothness of official history.

Why Mahasweta Devi still matters: 6 books to read on her 100th birth anniversary

January 20, 2026 1:51 pm

At 100, Mahasweta Devi does not read like a writer of the past, but as a rebuke to literary complacency and historical amnesia.

Durjoy Datta spoke of limitations; both imposed and self-acknowledged.

I never got critical validation, you need to write a certain kind of book for it: Durjoy Datta

January 20, 2026 1:51 pm

Bestselling author Durjoy Datta spoke about creative limitation, genre frustration, social media fatigue, and the discomfort that shapes his relationship with romance and critical validation

Saif Ali Khan reveals his current reading list: '...I bought the rights to the book'

January 10, 2026 5:00 pm

"On the back of the book, it says it's an ode to India that does not exist anymore," elaborated the Jewel Thief-The Heist Begins actor.

This is the 53rd edition of the New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) 2026.

Armed with books: World Book Fair mixes military tribute with literary diplomacy

January 20, 2026 1:52 pm

The New Delhi World Book Fair 2026 returns with more than 600 events and tribute to the Indian Armed Forces

'Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai, Piyush Mishra' is Piyush Mishra's novelised memoir. (Source: HarperCollins India)

'Tumhari Auqaat Kya Hai?': Piyush Mishra's memoir dismantles his own myth

January 20, 2026 1:52 pm

In a novelised memoir that moves through Gwalior, Delhi, and Mumbai, the artist replaces reverence with reckoning and asks readers to confront their own worth.

Udayan Mitra, Executive Publisher, Harper Collins, Mandeep Surie, General Manager, The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), Amitav Ghosh and Keshava Suri at the book launch.

Seeing Differently: Amitav Ghosh on his new book Ghost Eye

January 20, 2026 1:52 pm

In conversation with writer Keshava Guha, Ghosh traced how food, past lives and ecology shaped his new novel

Wake Up Dead Man crime mystery: A Knives Out Mystery: Wake Up Dead Man A Knives Out Mystery movie stars Daniel Craig in the lead role.

How John Carr’s 'The Hollow Man' built the perfect crime for ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

January 20, 2026 1:52 pm

A classic impossible-crime structure returns as Rian Johnson channels John Dickson Carr’s baroque locked-room tradition for a modern Knives Out entry.