From the unwanted mosquitoes and cockroaches to the intelligent pigeons and monkeys, they all have their stories to tell and the author lends them a voice
11 Oct 2025
From the unwanted mosquitoes and cockroaches to the intelligent pigeons and monkeys, they all have their stories to tell and the author lends them a voice
In this book, game designer Abeer Kapoor and graphic designer Ujan Dutta reveal the political dimension without eschewing the anti-imperialistic rhetoric
Book Excerpt: An avid historian, his love for art was more than just a hobby, she writes
For graphic novelist Ita Mehrotra, the personal and political are continuously intertwined, as evident in her latest book
What does Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee, say about the Hungarian writer’s works
It is a poignant and potent book
First published in Urdu as ‘Maut Ki Kitaab’ in 2011, the book has now been rendered into supple, lyrical English by A Naseeb Khan
The book doesn’t merely recount battles; it thrusts you into their chaos and grandeur
It tells how today’s market is largely a result of these efforts
The book brings together a range of artists, art writers and friends to paint a character sketch of the artist
The book traces his evolution from a penalty-corner specialist and Olympic hero to an administrator at a university mired in factional politics
A mix of romance, fantasy, adventure, mystery tied together with the supernatural element in it, the book brings home the significance of family life and relationships that can be built
Justice Shah writes that the Collegium system has altered — unfortunately, to the detriment of the HCs — the relationships between judges of the HCs and the SCI
The book encompasses a memoir, Sindhi proverbs as well as a translation
What do night trains offer that day trains and planes can’t?
The author follows the Chenab, right from its birthplace in the upper Himalayas to its final embrace with the Arabian Sea
The book is a primer on the importance of military ethics in career choices
What happens when Avinash, a young Dalit boy growing up in a tin-roofed slum, comes to know of the centuries of oppression his ilk has faced?
Namita Devidayal’s ‘Tangerine’ is an introspective memoir
‘Bandaged Moments’ by Nabanita Sengupta & Nishi Pulugurtha is a collection of short stories by Indian women writers on mental health it is not a gentle offering. It is a tear in the fabric of our social pretence
‘Why Savagery at Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar (1919)?’ by Jagdish Chander Joshi is a meticulous excavation of this tragedy and its meanings
‘The Dark Hours of the Night’, a new English translation of Tamil poet and novelist Salma’s acclaimed debut ‘Irandaam Jaamangalin Kathai’, tells why there is no such thing as a small story
The author writes that caste is not merely India’s parochial wound but an evolving structure that travelled and survived across the world
Colonel Arup Ratan Basu’s humane and compassionate book, “The Kargil War Surgeon’s Testimony” looks at war, not through the eyes of one trained to take lives but one saving them
‘Mother Mary Comes To Me’ is a powerful work that recounts with astonishing clarity the impact a parent, especially a mother, can have on a child
The 1,000-page book has the leisure to cast light on all aspects of Panikkar’s life