Review of The Kerala Club, edited by K.M. Chandrasekhar, T.P. Sreenivasan
In a collection of essays, civil servants write on governance in a State known for sharp contrasts
Mark Zuckerberg personally authorized Metas copyright infringement, publishers allege
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement
Two Indian journalists win Pulitzer Prize for highlighting cyber fraud
Anand RK and Suparna Sharma won the award in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for their work highlighting digital surveillance and cyber fraud
Gerry Conway, comic book writer who co-created Punisher character in Spider-Man, passes away
From Spider-Man to the Avengers, Iron Man to Captain Marvel, Gerry Conway has deftly written almost every character in the Marvel Universe, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief C B Cebulski said
Bookworm slowly picks up pieces after the floods
Interview | Saurabh Mukherjea: All routine jobs will be AI-ed out
Is Indias middle class facing an economic crisis? Equity strategist Mukherjeas new book argues that it is
Review | A story of outsiders in a divided Germany: The Others by Sheena Kalayil
The novel, longlisted for the 2026 Womens Prize for Fiction, ably captures the anxieties of ordinary people amid political upheaval
Everyone is busy building intelligence, but no one can define what it is
In their books, Karen Hao, Max Fisher, and Dwarkesh Patel explore the AI industry that has become a juggernaut even as it still struggles to define intelligence, measure its costs, or agree on its end goal
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Interview | The loss of Palestine defined my fathers life: author Hannah Lillith Assadi
Assadis novel Paradiso 17, based on her fathers life, was longlisted for this years Womens Prize for Fiction
Gulbadan Begum was Bbars daughter; she was asked by her nephew Akbar to write her memories of the reigns early years
Another industry hit by global war The US-Israel-Iran conflict is now disrupting raw material supply and impacting Indias 8,000-crore condom manufacturing industry.
R. Parthasarathys best-known work is the 1977 book-length poem Rough Passage
Daily Quiz: on John Steinbeck who has been called a giant of American letter
American writer John Steinbeckwas born on February 27, 1902. Here is a quiz on the author who has been called a giant of American letters
Noted Bengali author Sankar dies at 93
Mani Sankar Mukhopadhays novel Chowringee captured the complexities of urban life and society
Letters off the wall: Exploring Varsha Seshans novel and career
Friendship can happen in the most wholesome, and sometimes, the most interesting ways possible. Varsha Seshan -- through the pages of her novel The Wall Friends Club --- explores a one of a kind friendship: one exchanged in letters.
In conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, author of Demon Copperhead
At the Kolkata Literary Meet, the Pulitzer-winning author discusses the role of literature in cultivating compassion, writingDemon, and her new book
Mark Tullys India stories, talking to George Saunders, Anthony Hopkins memoir and more
Lalita Iyers book on ageing is about finding our authentic selves
In her recent book, Aging (Un)Gracefully, author Lalita Iyer says that growing old is both a liberation and a licence to be your true self
Technology trouble is a light term that can be used to describe the idea of this subgenre!
Shobhaa De on intimacy, pleasure, and the conversations India avoids
Shobhaa De questioned Indias enduring discomfort with intimacy, urging a shift from silence and instruction to dialogue and agency
Festschrift for Mahasweta Devi: three books by marginalised voices
In her centenary year Mahasweta Devi would have turned 100 today we read three writers, Sushila Takbhaure, Rakshit Sonawane and Mayyu Ali, who chronicle their lives of oppression. Their stories would have struck a chord with a writer who always kept an eye out for the dispossessed
The dark blue of indigo, which was related to the Champaran Satyagraha, soon faded from memory. It needed Ambedkar to bring it back into the public imagination
