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Amit Chaudhuri’s Finding the Raga wins the James Tait Black prize in the biography categoryPremium Story
August 25, 2022 22:12 IST
Published by Penguin India, the book details Chaudhuri’s personal relationship with north Indian music and its evolution over the years.
Read these 5 books to help boost your emotional intelligence
July 10, 2022 20:32 IST
Have you ever been titled as emotionally needy, high maintenance, overly sensitive, demanding, or selfish even? Here's a list of books to help you boost your social intelligence.
Tata Literature Live: Chomsky-Prashad discussion cancelled hours before eventPremium Story
November 22, 2020 04:46 IST
The move follows the duo’s decision to read a statement against “corporations such as the Tatas, and the Tatas in particular”, responding to a joint appeal by 50 activists and civil society members, urging them to not participate in an event sponsored by the company.
A book a day keeps the blues away; Your lockdown reading is herePremium Story
April 11, 2020 19:48 IST
Reading is a solitary act, but during the lockdown, you can be alone together with other book lovers, thanks to these digital initiatives
Anything but TypicalPremium Story
April 2, 2020 00:27 IST
On World Autism Day, Suhasini Malde talks about her book Innocentism that explores the joys of devoting a life for the betterment of autistic children
‘I wanted to create a non-Western-centric post-apocalyptic world,’ says Sophia KhanPremium Story
March 16, 2020 05:20 IST
Sophia Khan's book The Flight of the Arconaut, was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Karachi Literature Festival Getz Pharma Fiction Prize.
This old library in a Punjab village is encouraging the youth to readPremium Story
March 14, 2020 09:08 IST
A 42-year-old library in a small village finds new readers
‘Salinger wanted success as a writer but he didn’t want celebrityhood’Premium Story
March 13, 2020 00:10 IST
Joana Rakoff on director Phillipe Falardeu’s new film on her book My Salinger Year, working at the literary agency that represented JD Salinger, and how she discovered the reclusive writer
A Home for Hope: Subhadra Sen Gupta’s new book makes the Constitution accessible to childrenPremium Story
March 12, 2020 09:17 IST
It took Sen Gupta about nine months to finish the manuscript. By the time the book came out, people had taken to the streets to uphold the democratic ethos of the Constitution. In hindsight, Sen Gupta wishes she had done a segment on citizenship. Perhaps, that will be grist for another book.
The Red CarpetPremium Story
March 12, 2020 00:09 IST
Conversations around India’s hotel industry dominated the book launch of From Oberoi to Oyo.
John Stratton Hawley on his new book and how the city’s history is steeped in a vision of ‘HinduismPremium Story
March 9, 2020 08:34 IST
Hawley, 78, is still hopeful that the faith that steered the creation of Vrindavan, will triumph over blatant commercialisation of religion. Excerpts from an interview.
Life EverlastingPremium Story
April 26, 2020 09:37 IST
A translation of Tagore’s memoir seeks to take it to a global audience
The Rest is Not NoisePremium Story
April 26, 2020 09:38 IST
An unusual piece of writing on music, TM Krishna’s new book captures the issues of caste and purity that underlie the tradition of making and playing the mrdangam
For a Better LifePremium Story
March 7, 2020 00:21 IST
Vivek Atray’s Finding Success Within analyses how success is not solely determined by material gains.
Poet Akhil Katyal on wearing his politics on his sleeves and his new collection of poemsPremium Story
March 2, 2020 08:30 IST
Over the last couple of years, Katyal, along with a bunch of contemporaries, that now include vernacular poets such as Hussain Haidry and Aamir Aziz, have responded to the ruptures in India’s community life with poetry on social media.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s memoir of the reform years presents a complicated picturePremium Story
April 26, 2020 09:41 IST
It is too easy to dismiss reformers like Montek as elitist. They may make errors of judgment, but they often had more faith in Indians than many of those who yelped loudly in the name of the poor.
A debut novel that shows promise but falters in the executionPremium Story
April 26, 2020 09:42 IST
So All Is Peace tells its readers how rigged the system is, how unfairly skewed it is in favour of men and how it is the complicity of men in taking advantage of their position in a patriarchal setup that leads to the horrors we see in the news every day.
‘I am a ruthless novelist’: Elizabeth GilbertPremium Story
March 1, 2020 08:41 IST
American writer Elizabeth Gilbert on shaking up literary templates and holding up her scars to the light.
Shokoofeh Azar is among the 13 writers, and Iran’s first, to be on the Booker Prize International longlistPremium Story
March 1, 2020 08:43 IST
Azar, 48, who has been living in Australia (Melbourne) as a political refugee since 2011, becomes the first Iranian author to have been recognised by the £50,000 prize, which is split between the winning author and translator.
Setting the Record StraightPremium Story
February 28, 2020 02:40 IST
British writer Hallie Rubenhold’s latest book tells the story of the five victims of Jack the Ripper.
Milind Soman: I fell in love many times but never with a manPremium Story
February 25, 2020 15:50 IST
The actor talks about how procrastination became his best friend in dealing with smoking addiction, why his wife to him was a mystery, breaking of vicious habits like smoking, alcohol and more.
Gautam Bhatia’s new book takes a nuanced look at the palimpsest that we perceive Delhi to bePremium Story
February 23, 2020 08:54 IST
The author accords a voice to the hustle and bustle of daily life in the city, as well as to distinctive personalities that reside in it, such as politicians, bureaucrats, labourers, builders, the rich and the poor.
Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka returns with a crackling whodunit a decade after his debutPremium Story
February 23, 2020 09:03 IST
It is clear that Karunatilaka is a fearless writer, perhaps the most important quality in a writer. It also helps that he is astonishingly funny. Together, these qualities make Chats with the Dead a fascinating read.
‘As an eternal foreigner, I don’t take anything for granted’: Isabel AllendePremium Story
February 23, 2020 09:02 IST
Peru-born Chilean writer Isabel Allende, 77, who describes herself as a ‘novelist, feminist, and philanthropist’ on carrying her family name with pride, immersing herself in poetry before a new work and her latest novel.
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