Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet win Womens Prize 2026
Evans has won the fiction prize for her epistolary novel The Correspondent, while Canadian journalist Doucet takes home the nonfiction award for her book on Afghanistan
The human cost of H1-B dream | Review of Tanul Thakurs Wild Wild East
Thakurs debut book balances broad socio-political analysis with the pleasures of old-school narrative journalism
Review | Reading debut novel Gloria Dont Speak through the lens of the feminist snap
In her Womens Prize-longlisted work, author Lucy Apps delivers an affecting portrait of female agency and vulnerability
Scottish botanist Henry Noltie hopes the recovery of Indias lost botanical art, now in a new book titled Flora Indica, will inspire contemporary artists
Interview | Lily King: I wanted to write about a big first love and a big first heartbreak
Heart the Lover, shortlisted for the 2026 Womens Prize, is billed both as a prequel and sequel to Kings previous novel,Writers & Lovers
Interview | Indira Jaising: Now is the time to reclaim the Constitution
The senior advocate on writing her memoir, womens rights, and the challenges facing the judiciary
Om Birla releases 89 'historical' volumes of Central Legislative Assembly proceedings
Om Birla remarked that this historical document will inspire all individuals who believe in democracy, as well as public representatives throughout the country
Review | Yann Martels Son of Nobody reimagines marriage through the Trojan War myth
Martels ambitious conceit doesnt fully deliver though, as the parallels between war and domesticity often feel contrived
Book on Indias first Olympic gold released
Taiwan Travelogue wins International Booker Prize 2026
The novel, originally written in the Mandarin Chinese,succeeds as both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel
Review | Rene Karabashs She Who Remains reimagines gender and freedom through Albanias sworn virgins
The International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is a haunting meditation on identity, violence and the cost of freedom
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
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
