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Radhika Howarths Flavours Without Borders spotlights 20 ingredients in three culinary styles

Flavours Without Borders looks at 20 ingredients including such askidney beans, beetroot, and milk; and how migration has shaped them

31 Mar 2025 3:44 pm
Ink and revolution: women writers who paved the way for change

Womens History Month, observed every March, celebrates the contributions of pioneering writers. Looking back at the books of authors such as Toni Morrison, Bell Hooks, Maya Angelou, and Betty Friedan, who have challenged societal norms and continue to shape conversations on equality

31 Mar 2025 8:30 am
In the shadow of history | Review of Sanam Mahloudjis The Persians, longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2025

This debut novel tells the story of three generations of Iranian women, existing between America and Iran

28 Mar 2025 9:30 am
Han Kangs imagery of pain | Review of We Do Not Part

Last years Nobel laureate looks back at the Jeju Island massacre of 1948 inher new novel, an act of resistance against forgetting

14 Mar 2025 9:40 am
A daring gambit | Review of Unknown City by Amitabha Bagchi

In this sequel to his debut novel, Bagchi dissects every character and their motives through carefully crafted memory-excursions

14 Mar 2025 9:30 am
Tagorein a cafe | Sunandini Banerjees Moonlight Over River and Garden exhibition on display in Kolkata

An editor and graphic designer delivers her unique spin on the Bard of Bengals verses and Bashos haikus

21 Feb 2025 10:40 am
Algerian writer Kamel Daoud sued in France over prize-winning book

In 2024, the French-Algerian writer won Frances top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel Houris, centred on Algerias civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s

15 Feb 2025 10:42 am
The Hindu Lit for Life| Nirmala Lakshman on a journey of discovery while working on The TamilsA Portrait of a Community

Nirmala Lakshman, Chairperson, The Hindu Group speaks about her latest book, The Tamils: A Portrait Of A Community, and gaining insights from ordinary people and simple relationships through the process

17 Jan 2025 4:42 pm
The Hindu Lit for Life | Mukund Padmanabhan on the exodus of Madras in 1942, and attempting to learn discipline

Author and former editor of The Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan on a Japanese non-invasion in 1942 that led to Madras empty streets and grotesque shooting of zoo animals at the Madras Zoo

17 Jan 2025 4:38 pm
The Hindu Lit for Life | Build self-worth and inner strength in children at the Tree of Confidence workshop

Join Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan as she helps children grow their self-belief and confidence, one tree at a time

10 Jan 2025 4:31 pm
Books, writers have been guiding light in times of defeat: Pawan Kalyan

Recalling a few writings that stayed with him since his childhood, Mr. Kalyan pointed out how he could relate to the struggles of the protagonist in the Kesava Reddys Athadu Adavini Jayinchadu and understand the travails of the people in Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyays Vanavasi

3 Jan 2025 4:44 am
Golden age of the celebrity memoir

Behind every star is a horrific story, and behind them is a publisher waiting with a cheque book

27 Dec 2024 4:40 pm
Brain rot, manifest, delulu, and more: Top 10 words of the year 2024

Most of these dictionaries shortlist the words to reflect the moods and conversations that have helped shape the past year

16 Dec 2024 4:27 pm
Beyond Goodreads: alternative book review platforms to track

Following last years review bombing controversies at Goodreads, 2024 has seen a fresh wave of book trackers

3 Dec 2024 9:44 am