Titled Deevara Chittara: the artform, the people, their culture, the book is a result of research and collaboration among cultural researcher Geetha Bhat, documentary photographer Smitha Tumuluru and textile designer Namrata Cavale.

Editor and writer Anita Mani talks about the latest book series - Wild About India

A new book by Ziya Us Salam and Anand Mishra recounts the valiant efforts of Brigadier Mohammed Usman in the Indo-Pakistan war of 1948

The author lends heft to a 10-year-olds attempt at making sense of her troubled surroundings

If all of us could choose, what gender would we be, asks the author through the four novellas in this book

Does the couch-side view of a great writer deserve to be published posthumously?

A video interview with Sahitya Akademi award-winning Tamil writer at The Hindu office in Chennai

Safari Etiquette: An essential guide, a new e-book by Jonathan and Angela Scotts Sacred Nature Initiative, in collaboration with the Narok County Governments One Mara Brand, explains how one must behave on a safari

The winning book for 2025 will be announced on November 10 at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London, with the winner receiving GBP 50,000 (approx 58 lakh)

For the best part of the 2010s, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Cheteshwar Pujara formed the bedrock of Indian batting along with Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane. The book on Rohit, Dhawans memoir and Pujaras biography, penned by his wife, recount both their successes and setbacks

British food writer Dominic Franks turned a viral onion tart into Upside Down Cooking, a debut cookbook with 85 recipes including an upside-down samosa.

Through her sci-fi novel, the author makes a case for understanding disability as a social construct rather than a medical problem

Journalist father-daughter duo Chander and Jyotsna Mohan spin their resistance-embroiled family history into a chronicle that combines personal accounts with public record in their book Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper

Forced to quit school at age of 12 to support his family, Jalal Rahman, now based in Saudi Arabia, has released Dikrayath Jalal Rahman Al Khaleejil Arabi, the Arabic translation of his second book Angum Ingum Engum

Footnotes to the Mahabharata, The book was recently launched at in the Goethe Institut, Chennai, in association with the Prakriti Foundation

Wonderful poems can arise from fear and codes, as well as from self-disclosure and pride, says the Harvard professor on her new anthology Super Gay Poems

This warmly written bildungsroman deftly navigates the last 50 years of India, with a mix of the personal, the social and the political

English writer George Orwell was born on this day in 1903. Here is a quiz on one of the most well-known and prolific writers of the 20th century.

When we talk about authors switching languages, its always men, says the Pulitzer-winning writer, determined to change such thinking

Mystical mountains and sacred rivers, the ghats of Banaras and religious routes have always attracted travellers keen to get a deeper insight on the self and spirituality. When such stories are documented, it helps readers to understand the interwovenness of Indias rich history

The celebrated Kenyan authors views on language and colonialism were not without controversy but he soldiered on and inspired generations of African writers

Hot Water tells the story of a single mother and her two young children, and a summer holiday when secrets are revealed

The recent memoirs of Mohinder Amarnath and Syed Kirmani are conspicuous by the many silences on the life and times of the stars

Writer, activist and lawyerBanu Mushtaqs short story collection Heart Lamp became thefirst Kannada titleto win the International Booker Prize

Najma Heptullas memoir shines a light on women in public life

The Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman reviewed Nirmala Lakshmans book The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community for The Book Review journal

The Nigerian authors latest,Dream Count, may not be perfect, but the storyteller in her nevertheless dazzles

Through the diary entries of a disappeared Palestinian, the novel translated by Sinan Antoon challenges readers to confront the constant erasure of a people and their heritage

Entrepreneur Krishna Kumar Marayil talks about his debut book Crossing the Rubicon

By situating the works of the 15th century poet-saint alongside the teachings of the Buddha and Ambedkar, the author journeys into the notion of equality

The author writes that this condition is as real as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder

The city of Calcutta, fully alive and mysterious, is the real star in this novel, while the ensemble cast fails to live up to expectations

With characters that are excellent but flawed, the author manages to run a thread of black humour in a tapestry of misery