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Pay attention to the history you are making in the present, Smith suggests, or it will return to haunt you

Six years since the COVID-19 pandemic, the question that three books collectively pose is not whether Indias response succeeded or failed; the evidence on that is substantial. It is whether those who bear the costs of policy failure have been taken seriously enough

Indian-origin Canadian-American writer Padma Viswanathan has been shortlisted for her English translation of Brazilian author Ana Paula Maias novel On Earth As It Is Beneath

Using literature, memoir, and ethnography, womens stories challenge male-dominated narratives; they reclaim history by turning personal memory into a powerful record of lived experience and structural inequality

Two Alkazi Photobook Grant winners, Joyona Medhi and Abhishek Basu, explore a new expression of the family archive

Kidder's longtime publisher Random House confirmed his death in a statement on March 25

R. Parthasarathys best-known work is the 1977 book-length poem Rough Passage

Roy writes with affection, not sentimentality, about her house, garden and the mountains

Our models empower innovation, and are trained on publicly available data and grounded in fair use, an OpenAI spokesperson said

Mr. Tamilselvan said there had been an attempt to destroy the autonomy of the Sahitya Akademi and that the announcement of the prize had been delayed by three months

Eight books of poetry, four novels, six books of short stories, two essays, one literary criticism, one autobiography and two memoirs have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards 2025

The historical roots of patriarchy need to be understood. We need to study as well, because we have to substantiate our point of view. Changes have happened when we have understood changes, she said

At the book launch of author and former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhis India and Her Futures, actor-MP Kamal Haasan said the question before our country is whether we join the chorus of nations exporting division as politics or remain true to the extraordinary, ethical, and moral imagination that created India

Roys biography traces the performances, complex identity, and subtle queerness of Chapal Bhaduri, the last female impersonator of Bengali jatra

Steered by women and social media, Arabic calligraphy is seeing a resurgence in South India as an art form, beyond religious texts like the Quran

Priya Purushothamans The Call of Music captures the varied paths of eight musicians who shaped her musical worldview.

Zai and Rom Whitakers latest book for young readers, The Book of Indian Snakes, tackles common misconceptions surrounding snakes, highlighting their utility to humans

Says the former Attorney General talks about himself in the book as to how he was an accidental lawyer.

What does it mean for our Prime Minister to have traveled to Israel and embraced Benyamin Netanyahu just days before he attacked Iran, for our government to sign a groveling trade deal with the U.S. that sells our farmers and textile industry down the river, for us to now be given permission to buy oil from Russia, she asked

The poet-novelist on rewriting colonial narratives, and the ecological grief at the heart of his new book

Although set in the early 20th century, the narrative is far removed from the upheaval of rebellion

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

In this prison novella, translated from the Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan, the author refuses to validate mens violence

The author examines thedisappearance of a young man withinthe framework of Muslim-immigrant lifein suburban London

Indian author Megha Majumdar is among the nominees for the 30,000 prize with her book A Guardian and a Thief

In a special project revealed through an official video, Oda wrote down the answer to the central question of the story the nature of the legendary treasure known as One Piece for the first time

The anthology, translated by D.V. Subhashri, challenges myths and celebrates communal harmony in coastal Andhra Pradesh

Mani Sankar Mukhopadhays novel Chowringee captured the complexities of urban life and society

Annas Archive last year took responsibility for scraping Spotify, which was followed by its main URL getting blocked due to legal action

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.

At the Kolkata Literary Meet, the Pulitzer-winning author discusses the role of literature in cultivating compassion, writingDemon, and her new book

A complex satire of corporate greed and moral culpability, Vigil is the authors first novel in nearly a decade

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 questioned Indias enduring discomfort with intimacy, urging a shift from silence and instruction to dialogue and agency

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

Anchored by a phlegmatic Nawazuddin Siddiqui, director Honey Trehan crafts a mystery that intertwines crime and social commentary. Though uneven in pacing, the film deftly examines the intersection of entitlement and morality in society

The book brings together her field adventures, scientific insight, and childhood memories to show how insects shape our ecosystems