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Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on his memoir ‘Without Fear or Favour ‘and the executive’s growing influence over the collegium system
The former Supreme Court judge on delays in clearing collegium recommendations and the need for reform
The Hindu – Books · 2 days agoAmeer Shahul on The Silent Syndicate and how care centres have now turned into profit centres
The public policy expert says financial interests and claim rejections are driving up the cost of treatment
The Hindu – Books · 3 days agoChristopher Myers returns with ‘Night Ride’, a children’s book featuring stained-glass art
The American writer and interdisciplinary artist was in Bengaluru recently to attend a children’s literature festival
The Hindu – Books · 3 days agoUnderstanding an elusive big cat | Review of The Ghost of the Mountains
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi explores what it means to share a landscape with the snow leopard
The Hindu – Books · 4 days agoReview | In ‘All the King’s Horses’, poet Adil Jussawalla makes repair a form of remembrance
Exploring love and longing, the book is in the form of memos between husband and wife
The Hindu – Books · 4 days agoMapping Bombay | Review of ‘The Diamond-Encrusted Rat Trap’ by Adil Jussawalla
Jussawalla bears witness to the ‘bigness and strangeness’ of the city
The Hindu – Books · 4 days agoInterview | Author Elif Shafak on how she found a kindred spirit in Gustave Flaubert
Shafak’s new novel, ‘In One Brief Moment All Eternity’, is a fictional biography of the creator of ‘Madame Bovary’
The Hindu – Books · 4 days agoLooking at Bengaluru’s bookstores, beyond Church Street
The bookstores on Church Street in Bengaluru are well known; here are a few lesser-known ones that keep the love for reading…
The Hindu – Books · 4 days agoAs Kozhikode marks three years of ‘City of Literature’ recognition, writers seek more focus at local level
Accessible and affordable public spaces for literary programmes, better coordination of local events and initiatives to encourage young writers sought
The Hindu – Books · 5 days agoNew India Foundation announces shortlist for 2026 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
The winner, announced in December, will receive a cash prize of ₹15 lakh
The Hindu – Books · 6 days agoRage, reform, repeat | Review of Mihira Sood’s Courting Equality
Sood’s book traces the landmark cases in the battle for women’s rights and the limits of what they reveal about the ground…
The Hindu – Books · 6 days agoBetween writer and reader
The Hindu – Books · 6 days agoReview | ‘Transcription’ by Ben Lerner is a wake-up call for our hyper-connected world
This Orwell Prize-winning novel explores memory, technology and the fragile boundaries between reality and imagination
The Hindu – Books · 7 days agoReview | ‘The Palm House’ by Gwendoline Riley, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026
A wry, atmospheric novel about the search for tenderness amid the uncertainties of modern life
The Hindu – Books · 7 days agoReview | ‘The Best of Urdu Short Stories’ spotlights lesser-known voices
With a mix of the classic and contemporary, this anthology attempts to bring fresh perspectives and greater range to the Urdu literary…
The Hindu – Books · 7 days agoThe other face of air pollution | Excerpt from The Nitrogen Bomb by Jacob Koshy
The book explores how ammonia, largely emitted by agricultural activities, contributes to worsening air quality across the Indo-Gangetic Plain
The Hindu – Books · 1 week agoReview | Colson Whitehead ends his Harlem Trilogy on a high note with ‘Cool Machine’
The prominent character is this collection of three novellas is Ray Carney, a furniture dealer with a side business dealing in stolen…
The Hindu – Books · 1 week agoMidlife may not be a crisis after all
Margie Lachman’s new book, alongside two novels, gives us a different way of looking at midlife — as a time to experiment…
The Hindu – Books · 2 weeks agoCentury of change in Almora | Review of Sanjay Joshi’s Brahmins of the Himalaya
Joshi’s study traces social transformation in a little-known Brahminical stronghold
The Hindu – Books · 2 weeks agoInterview | Meg Mason on ‘Sophie, Standing There’, and how to let go of fandom
The Women’s Prize-shortlisted author goes behind the scenes of literary obsession in her new novel
The Hindu – Books · 2 weeks agoReview | ‘Moms’ by Shivani Sibal offers a startling glimpse into the lives of Delhi’s elite
By uncovering the fragilities of the so-called privileged, the novel provokes the reader to examine life and literature closely
The Hindu – Books · 2 weeks agoRegistrations for Vizag Junior Literary Fest open on October 24; fest on November 21, 22
The festival for children aged four to 16 will have around 100 sessions at Hawa Mahal on Beach Road
The Hindu – Books · 2 weeks agoMedicine as a central plot in Tamil literature
Tamil fiction has long explored health, illness, and the social forces shaping care, with notable works by Muthumeenal, Sivakami, and especially Imayam…
The Hindu – Books · 2 weeks ago