Books
Poet Sukrita Paul Kumar bags Tagore Literary PrizeFounded in 2018 by US-based publisher Peter Bundalo, the award is a platform for world peace, literature, art, education and human rights.
- Booker-winning author Paul Lynch was not confident about his seminal novel ‘Prophet Song’
The novel, which Atlantic Monthly Press will release in the United States on Tuesday, follows Eilish, a biologist and mother of four whose busy domestic life in suburban Dublin is shattered when the secret police show up at her home looking for her husband, a senior leader of a teachers union.
- New edition of 'Tintin in the Congo' addresses racist depiction of Africans
'Tintin in the Congo' by Belgian comic strip artist Herge, the second volume of 'The Adventures of Tintin', was first published in 1931.
- Excl: Overworked force in the field & compromised top leadership hurting brand equity of Indian police, says Maharashtra’s 1st woman commissioner
Meeran Chadha Borwankar, who served as an IPS officer for 36 years, feels that police reforms are needed both at the top and at the police station level. An overworked force, with lack of tech support is hurting the men in uniform.
- Word Of The Year: 'AI', 'Rizz', 'Authentic' Among Top Expressions That Defined 2023
Word Of The Year: 'AI', 'Rizz', 'Authentic' Among Top Expressions That Defined 2023
- Google Play's 2023 Literary Gems Includes Sci-Fi Adventures, Heartfelt Memoirs
Google Play's 2023 Literary Gems Includes Sci-Fi Adventures, Heartfelt Memoirs
- As Irish Writer Paul Lynch Bags 2023 Booker Prize, 6 Times When Indians Won The Honour
As Irish Writer Paul Lynch Bags 2023 Booker Prize, 6 Times When Indians Won The Honour
Bill Gates shares 2023 reading list: Indian-American doc's book on cell biology; Scot scientist debunks climate change myth with data; spl mention to WWII drama
'His Dark Materials' author Philip Pullman honoured with Bodley Medal at Oxford University
- Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah says many works of ‘Golden Age’ British authors were openly racist
The British-Tanzanian author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for books such as 'Paradise' and 'Memory of Departure' exploring Europe's colonial legacy.
- How a Leo DiCaprio meme turned 'The Great Gatsby' into an all-time bestseller in France
The novella, considered the defining account of jazz age America in all its high spirits and tawdry excess, was actually written mostly in France, where F. Scott Fitzgerald spent much of the 1920s.
- Ad guru Prahlad Kakar's memoir 'Adman Madman' to hit bookshelves on November 10
Be it secrets of the trade to create memorable brands or stories behind the celebrated advertisements that launched the careers of models -- who then went on to become famous Bollywood actors -- the book promises to have it all.
- James McBride bags Kirkus Prize for fiction for period drama ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’
The awards were presented by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews.
- Wondrous window: New book 'Jali' delves into the 600-yr old culture of latticed screens
A jali is a perforated stone or latticed screen, with ornamental patterns that draw on the compositional rhythms of geometry and calligraphy. It brings filtered light into enclosed spaces while providing protection and privacy.
- 'Stranger Things' star Millie Bobby Brown makes writing debut with wartime romance saga 'Nineteen Steps'
It's a love story set in London, spanning the wartime years of 1942-1945.
- War is an art: New book explores history of battles from Ice Age to contemporary times
'The Shortest History of War' by acclaimed military historian Gwynne Dyer explores the shift from limited to total war interrupted by Hiroshima's nuclear impact, until the Cold War and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
On Sudha Murty's 73rd Birthday, Pick From Best-Selling Indian Author's Top Reads
Amrit Mathur's autobiography 'Pitchside' reveals Akshay Kumar terminated Delhi Daredevils contract to save IPL team from incurring loss
