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Gender, media, and modernity: The making of the ‘new Indian woman’ in liberalising India

November 07, 2025 3:52 pm

Drawing from journals she kept between 1997 and 2008, author Meera Vijayann invites readers to reflect on what the ‘new Indian woman’ represented in a rapidly neoliberalising India.

Pick a book to avoid ‘doomscrolling’: Uber, Penguin partner for month-long initiative

July 31, 2024 8:30 am

Passengers will be encouraged to place the book back in its place for the next rider while exiting the bus at their stop.

Meru Gokhale of Penguin Random House India announces her departure; Milee Ashwarya to take over

October 21, 2022 11:18 am

Milee Ashwarya, who has supervised the Penguin imprints of Ebury Publishing and Vintage, will now be publisher, PRH India Adult Publishing.

Each poem in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets is history recorded in a language of one’s own

June 18, 2022 8:06 am

A new anthology lays bare a ruptured age in verse, straddling the social and political to record the historical

Penguin joins hands with Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sourcebooks

July 16, 2020 3:24 pm

Penguin Random House India, touted to be the largest English language trade publisher in the subcontinent, publishes over 250 new titles every year.

The Birth of Kumara and Other Stories

July 28, 2014 6:23 pm

Translations of a play and a mahakavya make Kalidasa accessible to a generation more familiar with English.

Praise be the Leader

November 26, 2011 12:38 am

This Nitish Kumar biography details the early years rather well but desists from interrogating the CM

A Cover Story

October 19, 2010 2:34 am

Admit it,we judge books by their covers. Books are like people. They come dressed in different outfits.

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