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5+ mon, 3+ week ago (151+ words) Can't go to the gym or work out regularly? Get moving with everyday activities Ramachandra Guha: Seven ways Donald Trump has damaged the United States in his second term Short fiction: A young man worries about his mother while fantasising…...
Malka Jan: The life and lost verses of a 19th century courtesan
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (1340+ words) How bookstores are becoming a buzzing third space for readers Can't go to the gym or work out regularly? Get moving with everyday activities Short fiction: A young man worries about his mother while fantasising about a billboard model Ramachandra…...
Intemperance" by Sonora Jha: 55-year-old woman"s swayamvar" story is charming and wise
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (501+ words) Matka King" review: A winning character study of an honest gambler" Allahabad HC withholds order directing FIR against Rahul Gandhi in alleged British citizenship case In 2000, Kashmir family lost son to militants. 26 years later, another son to Army encounter" Can…...
Three Indian writers make the Asian shortlist for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (573+ words) Da Vinci Porul: How a Kerala artists refutations of Dan Browns novel became a kathakali play Asha Bhosle changed what a womans feelings were allowed to sound like Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay at 150: The rebel novelist whose words can still ignite…...
Missing Sam: This novel about a marriage shaken by an abduction takes the easy way out
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (504+ words) Top updates: Iran rejects Trump's ultimatum, fire at Kuwaiti oil complex after drone attack Even the "unfinished' Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temple caves in Ellora have stories to tell 43% trees transplanted for Central Vista project died, says government Is dark…...
Light and Thread" by Han Kang: A necessary counterforce that values silence and the unsaid"
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (364+ words) Remembering the shape of silence in Hindi writer Nirmal Verma's creations "Nothing threatened Delhi': A new book recalls the tense nights of Operation Sindoor Is dark chocolate really the healthier, better choice? 43% trees transplanted for Central Vista project died, says…...
George Eliot is best known for "Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (1536+ words) Nothing threatened Delhi: A new book recalls the tense nights of Operation Sindoor Factually incorrect: Centre on claims about Iran oil ship diverted to China over payment hurdles Is dark chocolate really the healthier, better choice? When India began to…...
2026 International Booker Prize: Opening lines from the six shortlisted novels for curious readers
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1016+ words) Why right to self-determination is essential to improving employment and education among transpeople The unsung women who took Hindustani music from the kotha to the gramophone Even the "unfinished" Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temple caves in Ellora have stories to…...
Covid dispatches: An account of how quacks "treated" patients in absence of doctors in rural Bihar
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1367+ words) Why a proposal to resettle Parsis in Iran in the 1940s never took off "Please don't leave me,' Hind Rajab pleaded. Why her voice needs to be heard Fiction: When Allauddin Khilji conquers Madurai, the city's goddess Meenakshi flees to Kumari…...
Sunday book pick: In "The Cat, a newly-married elderly couple takes an abiding vow of hatred
4+ week, 2+ hour ago (253+ words) Prime Video 2026 slate: "Welcome to Khoya Mahal, "Storm, "Matka King, "Mirzapur film on the list Fiction: When Allauddin Khilji conquers Madurai, the citys goddess Meenakshi flees to Kumari "We, The People of India: TM Krishnas book is part-explainer, part wake-up…...