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NeOwn book rental service Five books a month, 12 months a year, means 60 books passing through a child's hands, whether or not each is finished.

A Mumbai mother's solution to kids' screen time: An app-based book rental service

December 18, 2025 7:57 pm

How a Mumbai mother became an entrepreneur, building an app-based book library covering 300 towns to swap screens for storybooks

Contemporary books are filled with characters who rarely appeared earlier—queer protagonists, children from different regions. (Freepik)

The silent revolution: Why today's children's books aren't what you remember

December 16, 2025 5:43 pm

Authors, illustrators and book festival organiser reveals how Indian children’s books are becoming more inclusive, experimental and emotionally honest.

Book Covers of Caligula, The Bell Jar and Rosarita

These four novels on my TBR have me wishing for more than 24 hours in a day

November 17, 2025 11:16 am

A few book recommendations from my TBR to yours

Booker winner Kiran Desai is returning with her third book, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, after two decades.

'Fame is another kind of loneliness': Kiran Desai on her Booker-shortlisted novel

October 23, 2025 4:51 pm

The writer, 54, on her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, what she has learned about fame from her mother Anita Desai, and on being back in the Booker reckoning

The Performative male is a new archetype, curated for the public gaze. (Generated using AI)

The performative male: From tote bags to matcha lattes, when sensitivity becomes a badge

October 28, 2025 6:38 pm

From Sally Rooney to therapy-speak, a look at how literature anticipates and anatomises the 'performative male', and the bind of modern masculinity.

Varanasi is not only a city of spirituality, it radiates an energy, a raw life force.

Got Varanasi wanderlust? Read these 3 books first

September 28, 2025 1:32 pm

From reportage to fiction, these works capture the city’s energy, spirituality, and contradictions.

If you have a towering TBR pile, you might be practicing tsundoku, a Japanese word for buying books and letting them pile up unread. (Source: Pinterest)

Building an antilibrary: What your TBR pile says about you

September 28, 2025 1:32 pm

Your unread books are not mocking you. They are revealing something about how you think, dream, and even market yourself.

The book, All the Way to the River, explores her relationship with the late musician Rayya Elias alongside Elizabeth Gilbert’s own struggles with addiction and recovery

Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir sparks debate — is 'All the Way to the River' healing or harmful?

September 27, 2025 12:49 pm

At the heart of the controversy is Elizabeth Gilbert's alleged claim that “romantic breakups and divorces are among the primary causes of suicide, homicide, and addiction relapse.”

Dan Brown serves up puzzles and page-turning drama in The Secret of Secrets.

Dan Brown is back: The Secret of Secrets mixes twists, trivia and noetic science

October 27, 2025 4:39 pm

Dan Brown returns with a trivia-packed thriller that’s part Wikipedia, part rollercoaster.

Performative reading, the habit of showcasing books mainly to signal taste or intellect, has become a modern marker of status.

The pose and the page: Inside the world of performative reading

November 13, 2025 7:31 pm

In the age of Instagram, the line between the reader and performer is blurring. Reading has begun to shift: books are no longer only absorbed, but displayed, performed, and staged for the scroll. And sometimes, a pose is only the first step towards practice.