Books and Literature

What Kargil’s kitchens reveal about India’s forgotten Silk Route

Situationships and soft love: 5 books that decode Gen Z relationships

D&D to incel forums to lifestyle hack: The lexical afterlives of maxxing

Susan Choi, Lily King, and Virginia Evans make the cut: 2026 Women’s Prize shortlist revealed

Where memory meets mist: Reading Ruskin Bond’s magic mountain

Run toward fear: LinkedIn’s Aneesh Raman on how AI will change workplaces

Audiobooks vs reading: What is better for your brain? Neurologists weigh in

Becoming the Storm is a Delhi family saga on early marriage and women’s agencySubscriber Only

The book of Elon and Muskism: Elon Musk in his own words—and as an OS of the future

Reese Witherspoon’s book club championed women writers. Her AI advocacy betrays them.

The digital decades by Subimal Bhattacharjee shows how India became a digital powerhouseSubscriber Only

How C Raja Mohan’s India and the Rebalancing of Asia rethinks India’s China challenge and US tiesSubscriber Only

The Durian Flavour by Gurjit Singh explains India-ASEAN ties in a changing worldSubscriber Only

Don’t mind the pages, notice the palette: Inside India’s love affair with gorgeous bookshelves

We know Ambedkar’s name. We don’t read his people.

Yadon Ka Jashan: The forgotten Urdu memoir modern India needs to readSubscriber Only

Ann Patchett’s Whistler review: Fact, fiction, and Three FathersSubscriber Only

Can an outsider sing Africa? Abhay K’s Alphabets makes a graceful caseSubscriber Only

No place for AI in real creative work: The Magnificent Ruins author Nayantara RoySubscriber Only

Hungary’s Viktor Orban wrote the illiberal playbook. These 5 books decode it.Subscriber Only

Dear reader, the Kindle was never really yours. Amazon just confirmed itSubscriber Only

The great unmaskings of 2026: Banksy, Freida McFadden and the death of AnonymousSubscriber Only

Best books on Iran: 5 reads beyond Persepolis and Reading Lolita in TehranSubscriber Only

‘Never outshine the master’: Reading Robert Greene’s laws of power with Raghav ChadhaSubscriber Only