Books and Literature
👁 An image of Jurgen Habermas courtesy holbergprize.org When the ‘unforced force’ of Habermas’s argument met Brexit and Gaza
👁 shashi tharoor Who was a Hindu? Shashi Tharoor revisits Sree Narayana Guru’s vision of reform in new bookSubscriber Only
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👁 The theme of irretrievable loss runs like a leitmotif. In ‘Place’, Ananya Vajpeyi Maps Grief, Politics and the Soul of CitiesSubscriber Only
👁 Killing Clifton Crais exposes the Dark Origins of Modernity — Guns, Empire and the ‘Mortecene’Subscriber Only
👁 The blue book cover of Saranya Subramanian’s Absent People, Absent Places rests on a table next to a transparent cup of coffee. Absent People, Absent Places: Bombay, breath, and the beautiful burden of being present
👁 A newspaper book review juxtaposed with social media in an AI image The disappearing books page: How the death of literary coverage affects us allSubscriber Only
👁 How to AI: Cut through the hype. Master the basics. Transform your work by Christopher Mims. (Penguin/AI) ‘How to AI’ is perhaps the one artificial intelligence primer all of us need to read
👁 The book cover of 'Don't Steal This Book' that contains the names of 10,000 authors. Don’t Steal This Book: Thousands of authors fight AI with empty anthology
👁 Arundhati Roy has been outspoken against nuclear weapons, the conflict in Kashmir, and corporate land acquisition. ‘I stand with Iran’, says Arundhati Roy calls Indian govt ‘spineless and gutless’
👁 Padma Viswanathan has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 for her English translation of Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia's On Earth As It Is Beneath Photo: Alex Tran/https://padmaviswanathan.com/) ‘Tamil is my next project’: Booker-longlisted translator Padma ViswanathanSubscriber Only
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👁 Philosophy is not just the domain of men. (Source: AI) The canon’s lost voices: 5 women who rewrote the rules of philosophy
👁 The book cover of Rohit Chawla's Portrait of an Artist (Photo: Mapin Publishing) ‘I meet my God through my camera’ | An excerpt from Rohit Chawla’s Portrait of an Artist
👁 Sarnath Banerjee, the author of Absolute Jafar, at his home in New Delhi. (Photo courtesy: Roanna Rahman) The world has critical thinkers. What it lacks is critical imagination’: Sarnath Banerjee on cheetah as the last migrantSubscriber Only
👁 Sheena Kalayil and Megha Majumdar who made it to the Women's Prize 2026 longlist Two authors of Indian origin — Sheena Kalayil and Megha Majumdar —make 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlistSubscriber Only
👁 Women hold up drawings of Iranian Mahsa Amini as they shout slogans during a protest against her death, outside Iran's general consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP) From Tehran to Delhi: Why women’s protests begin in stories before they reach the streetsSubscriber Only
👁 Ruhi Tewari's What Women Want Ruhi Tewari’s What Women Want explains how women are driving electoral change in IndiaSubscriber Only
👁 ernest hemingway walking The roads not taken: A glimpse into writers who considered walking for ‘a living’Subscriber Only
👁 The book cover of Vigil by George Saunders George Saunders’ Vigil explores ethics of a life well wastedSubscriber Only
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👁 Old Lahore Mohammed Hanif’s Rebel English Academy Mirrors South Asia’s Political ChaosSubscriber Only
👁 Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. (Warner Bros) With 60 literary adaptations dropping this year – to read or watch that is the questionSubscriber Only
👁 The book cover of Amitav Ghosh's Ghost-Eye How Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Ghost-eye’ challenged my skepticism about reincarnationSubscriber Only
👁 Wuthering Heights Goth Barbie, dull dreamboat: Why Wuthering Heights’ lovers are angry with Emerald Fennell’s ragebaitSubscriber Only
👁 The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity by Tim Wu. (Source: amazon.in) The Age of Extraction is a wake-up call for world getting controlled by platformsSubscriber Only
👁 Mona Verma’s The River That Remembers book cover The River That Remembers: Blood, borders, and the burden of memorySubscriber Only
