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49th International Kolkata Book Fair to begin from January 22

The theme country for the 49thedition of the annual book fair is Argentina

3 Nov 2025 11:47 pm
Indian vegetables shine in Camellia Panjabis new cookbook

After 25 years of reflection, restaurateur Camellia Panjabi turns the spotlight on Indias overlooked culinary heroes in Vegetables: The Indian Way, a new cookbook that blends traditional recipes with modern sensibilities

3 Nov 2025 3:29 pm
Review of Jonathan Buckleys One Boat, longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025

Buckleys narrative embodies the reflective quality of travel, making space for emotion, doubt, and hope

3 Nov 2025 9:53 am
Review of Maria Revas Endling, longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025

This metafictional debut novel juxtaposes the story of a rescue of snails with conversations around war and survival

3 Nov 2025 6:10 am
In conversation with Ledia Xhoga, author of Booker-longlisted novel Misinterpretation

In her debut novel, the author asks the unsettling question: is help always benign or can it morph into something darker?

3 Nov 2025 6:05 am
Meet the Bengaluru duo reviving Dakhni through comics and animation

Founded by Bengaluru artists Rahil Mohsin and Alankrita Amaya, Hallubol is a Dakhni comic series that celebrates identity, humour, and cultural pride

1 Nov 2025 1:05 pm
Ritwik Ghatak centenary | Excerpt from Unmechanical, ed. Shamya Dasgupta

Enfant terrible of Bengali cinema, Ritwik Ghatak, who would have turned 100 on November 4, bent every rule in the book

31 Oct 2025 7:00 am
Minting a murder | Review of The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith

A decade on, Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling is still going strong with her Strike series. However, the magic is wearing off

31 Oct 2025 6:05 am
Poetry experiencing new-found popularity

With Instagram helping budding poets find audiences and publishers pitching in, a slew of English poets is experiencing new-found popularity

30 Oct 2025 3:52 pm
Vaishali Shroffs Submerged Worlds explores the untold stories of Indias rivers

In her latest book published by Penguin, Vaishali Shroff uncovers the ecology, history and forgotten human tales that flow beneath Indias mighty rivers. The author will be in Visakhapatnam for the Vizag Junior Lit Fest

30 Oct 2025 3:38 pm
Kiran Desai on her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, shortlisted for Booker Prize 2025

Desai lovingly reconstructs a bygone time, a museum of a past India, in her novel

30 Oct 2025 1:26 pm
The Indus conundrum: when water is both a lifeline and a faultline

Writers are beginning to explain the ramifications of the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, which was a shared heritage between India and Pakistan. Others map how global warming is impacting the balance in nature, and take stock of the fallout of political decisions on all rivers

30 Oct 2025 8:30 am
Shortlist announced for NIF Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Prize 2025

The shortlist of the NIF Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2025 celebrates research and perspective

24 Oct 2025 4:42 pm
How Stephen King crafts his words

The 25th anniversary edition of On Writing, about the art and life of a best-selling author, distils the emotional core of creating a book: joy

24 Oct 2025 4:36 pm
Booker Prize charity launches new Children's Prize worth 50,000 pounds

its part of a movement: a cause that children, parents, carers, teachers and everyone in the world of storytelling can get behind, Gaby Wood said.

24 Oct 2025 2:37 pm
Interview with Kunzang Choden on her memoir Telling Me My Stories

Bhutanese author on her memoir, and the role of Bhutans monarchy in its modernisation

24 Oct 2025 12:26 pm
Review of anthology The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories, edited by Anindita Ghose

A new short story collection seeks tobring out the complexities of thecity that is more than just a backdrop, via 18 different writers

24 Oct 2025 8:40 am
Journalist Harinder Baweja on her new book They Will Shoot You, Madam

Baweja takes readers through her four-decade journey reporting on seismic events that shaped India

24 Oct 2025 6:00 am
Shock, horror, terror: how Dalit stories are stirring the literary world

Books like Daya Pawars Baluta and Baby Kambles memoir foreground the oppressed and marginalised lives of Dalits. In Dadu Mandrekars Untouchable Goa, the past in the form of myths and legends and the lived reality of the present are highlighted in the hope of a better future

23 Oct 2025 8:30 am
What is In Medias Res?

Not all stories begin with the phrase Once upon a time. There are some cases wherein the second you open the book, youll be tossed into a world of chaos and confusion.

17 Oct 2025 4:40 pm
In an abyss | Review of Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

Lis new book is a memoir of radical acceptance about loss, motherhood, and the limitations of language

17 Oct 2025 12:45 pm
History of a movement | Review of The Dravidian Pathway by Vignesh Rajahmani

An account of how the DMK converted the Dravidian movement into a political and electoral force

17 Oct 2025 6:30 am
Review of A Different Story, poetry by Amlanjyoti Goswami

The poets understanding of people results in a collection of over 200 verses both profound and affecting in its restraint

17 Oct 2025 6:15 am
Secrets in the dark | Review of Susan ChoisFlashlight,shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

With almost Mrquezian descriptions, Choi lends elegance to this story about a migrant family while lifting it from its political moorings

17 Oct 2025 6:10 am
Know thy villain | Review of The Menon Investigation by Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

In this police procedural set in Kerala, male protagonists are the victims of an unjust patriarchal society

17 Oct 2025 6:05 am
Review of The Cell and the Soul by Anand Teltumbde

Teltumbdes Taloja jail memoir is a pathology report on the cancerous rot eating away at the criminal justice system

17 Oct 2025 6:00 am
Emerald Fennells Wuthering Heights: What would Emily Bront think?

Emerald Fennells sexy, scandalous take on Wuthering Heights promises sweat, desire, and fiercely divided opinions. As a lifelong Emily Bront fan, Im not entirely horrified. But does it do the story justice?

16 Oct 2025 10:53 am
Sweet child o mine | Review of Claire Adams LoveForms, longlisted for Booker Prize 2025

Adam keeps readers guessing till the last page in this story about a woman forced to give up her daughter for adoption

16 Oct 2025 6:10 am
Review of The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City, edited by Bilal Moin

This collection of 375 poems is both an audacious undertaking and a tremendous labour of love

16 Oct 2025 6:05 am
A new biography on M.S. Subbulakshmi takes a peek into her art and life

Sivam Subham: The Biography ... of a Couple by Malayalam poet and lyricist Harinarayanan, was launched recently on the legendary singers 109th birth anniversary.

15 Oct 2025 2:58 pm
Author and algorithm: Calvino, cybernetics, and ghosts in the machine

What lies underneath the warm rapport between writer and reader? On Italo Calvinos birthday, we re-read his work to understand the logic of storytelling, the hidden design of language, the limitations of machines and why they can never replicate human imagination

15 Oct 2025 8:30 am
Witch Hat Atelier wins Harvey Award for Best Manga for the second time

Kamome Shirahamas spellbinding fantasy claims the top manga honor at New York Comic Con, marking its second Harvey win in five years

12 Oct 2025 11:56 am
Laszlo Krasznahorkai | Master of melancholy

In the works of the Hungarian novelist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2025, a central theme is the fleeting and precious nature of human life

12 Oct 2025 1:33 am
Fabien Toulm explores love in Bengaluru

Fabien Toulm, a French graphic novelist researching how couples meet, part, or stay together, has discovered both similarities and differences in Bengalurus approach to relationships

11 Oct 2025 7:09 pm
Beyond the full stop: Nobel Laureate Lszl Krasznahorkai and the tradition of the expansive sentence

Where science has failed to effectively communicate consciousness and the bridge between brain and mind, authors have managed it flawlessly

11 Oct 2025 3:46 pm
Making sense: On Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025

Krasznahorkai gets recognition for melancholic stories in an absurd world

11 Oct 2025 12:10 am
Jeffrey Archer: You cant buy a packet of stories

The bestselling author discusses the final chapter of the William Warwick series, concluding his 50-year career with a historical novel bigger than Kane and Abel, and his love for India and cricket

10 Oct 2025 6:13 pm
Now, read and sing the Hanuman Chalisa in English

Diplomat-poet Abhay K. launches a singable English version of the Hanuman Chalisa, blending poetic rhythm with devotional spirit.

10 Oct 2025 3:29 pm
A pilgrims progress | Review of A Return to Self by Aatish Taseer

Aatish Taseers travel writings seek answers for both historical puzzles and questions about his exile

10 Oct 2025 6:30 am
Interview | Author and Rajya Sabha MP Salma on juggling writing and politics

A new translation of Salmas first novel, The Dark Hours of the Night, foregrounds the voices of marginalised women

10 Oct 2025 6:15 am
World Mental Health Day | Review of Homecoming by Neha Kirpal, Nandini Murali

From diagnosis to recovery, two professionals provide a lucid account on ways to negotiate severe mental health conditions

10 Oct 2025 6:00 am
The Hindu Groups coffee-table book on legendary illustrator Maniam released

Veteran actor Sivakumar, an artist himself, released the first copy of the book, produced in association with Maniam Selven, the son of the late illustrator

9 Oct 2025 11:23 pm
Bureaucrats latest books turns the spotlight on Indias environmental concerns

In his latest book Testimony By Fire, Atulya Misra traces the journey of a young man across our country to understand its environmental concerns

9 Oct 2025 4:53 pm
Nobel Prize in literature goes to Hungarian author Lszl Krasznahorkai

The prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately 1.03 crore) and will be awarded on December 10.

9 Oct 2025 4:33 pm
Anatomy of a genocide: how it feels to live amid death and ruins in Gaza

In two years of Israels assault on Gaza after Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed, many of them women and children, and thousands displaced. While two books collect testimonies, another explains the conflict in Gaza, providing a historical context

9 Oct 2025 8:30 am
The home of Dracula. Uncovering the story of Bran Castle.

Enter if you dare! Its time to take a step into a gateway that can take us into a vampires fortress in the real world.

7 Oct 2025 6:47 pm
What is Chekovs Gun?

This is one gun that isnt specifically used by professional snipers; rather, it is used in a profession where the pen is the mightiest weapon.

7 Oct 2025 5:52 pm
British author Jilly Cooper dies at 88

Jilly Coopers book Rivals found a new generation of fans when it was made into a series for Disney+ in 2024

6 Oct 2025 3:34 pm
Interview | Andrew Miller on his Booker-shortlisted novel, The Land in Winter

The author draws on fragments from his childhood, examining a transformative time in 1960s Britain

3 Oct 2025 6:15 am
Price of invisibility | Review of Amrita Mahales Real Life

The novelexplores what unfolds when we try to retreat from the grip of near-constant surveillance in a hyper-connected world

3 Oct 2025 6:05 am