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Sachin Kundalkar's novel reads like a scattered collection of reflections

New Delhi, July 27 -- Sachin Kundalkar's new novel in translation, Silk Route, was first published in the original Marathi as Monochrome, Volume 1: Reshim Marg (2023), ostensibly as part of a projecte... Read More


Book review: 'Water Days' reveals the secret vocabulary of Bengaluru

New Delhi, July 25 -- Acclaimed philosopher Sundar Sarukkai's first novel, Following a Prayer (2023), was a strikingly original meditation on language, gender dynamics, and the magical power of belief... Read More


Firing underperformers can boost your team's retention

New Delhi, July 21 -- Last week a post by Vedika Bhaia, a Mumbai-based co-founder of a marketing and branding start-up, blew up on LinkedIn. It began with a counter-intuitive remark that resonated wit... Read More


Photographing the Dalai Lama for 35 years: Inside Manuel Bauer's rarely seen archive

New Delhi, July 19 -- Swiss photographer Manuel Bauer first met Tenzin Gyatso, better known to the world as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, in 1990. Back then, Bauer was a 23-year-old rookie journal... Read More


Overcoming accent bias in the global workplace

New Delhi, July 8 -- Last week a 32-year-old Indian man working in the US posted on social media platform Reddit about an incident of harassment he had faced at work. Although by no means uniquely awf... Read More


Frederick Forsyth's 'Jackal' is back in 2025

New Delhi, July 5 -- I first read Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal 25 years ago as a college student, longing for a pick-me-up while I was struggling to write an essay on the 18th-century poe... Read More


'Gunboy' review: A bloody good thriller set in the badlands of Maharashtra

New Delhi, June 28 -- Shreyas Rajagopal, who published his first novel Saltwater (2014) under the moniker of Shrey, has emerged from a decade-long hibernation with his new book, Gunboy. And it's been ... Read More


Engage with your work fully, whatever it might be: Hachette India MD Riti Jagoorie

New Delhi, June 24 -- On 12 June, Thomas Abraham, Managing Director of the India chapter of the multinational publishing firm Hachette, announced his retirement after 18 years. Since 2007, when he joi... Read More


A new anthology of writings from south Asia celebrates marginalised voices

New Delhi, June 14 -- Writer Kazim Ali begins his introduction to On the Brink, an anthology of queer writing from South Asia, with a question: "Why the word 'queer' when that is a word others have us... Read More


'Sirens': A study in class and bad parenting

New Delhi, June 14 -- In Greek mythology, sirens were believed to be enchantresses, who, with their sinister gift of song, lured sailors to their doom. The idea finds a delicious, comic and dark reinc... Read More