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From 'rizz' to 'aura farming': Why Gen Z & Alpha slang is just language's next chapter

New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- Earlier this week, Oxford University Press announced three contenders for the honour of the Word of the Year (WoTY) 2025: "aura farming", "biohack" and "rage bait". Two of these ... Read More


From 'rizz' to 'aura farming': Why Gen Z & Alpha slang is just language's next chapter

New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- Earlier this week, Oxford University Press announced three contenders for the honour of the Word of the Year (WoTY) 2025: "aura farming", "biohack" and "rage bait". Two of these ... Read More


Why are Indian workplaces and universities obsessed with making you work long hours?

New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- Recently, the elite Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru introduced a new mandate for students and researchers, leading to widespread discontent among the scientific c... Read More


Book review: Udayan Vajpeyi's novel has empty spaces that can't be filled by a reader

New Delhi, Nov. 16 -- Hindi writer Udayan Vajpeyi is best known as a poet. Occasionally he has published short stories and essays but Qayas, recently translated by Poonam Saxena as Love is Participati... Read More


'The Eleventh Hour' book review: Are words failing Salman Rushdie?

New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Salman Rushdie's new book of stories, The Eleventh Hour, ends with a definitive statement: "Our words fail us." It comes as a coda to a fantastical, albeit clumsily executed, all... Read More


Salman Rushdie's throwback to his glorious past

New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Salman Rushdie's new book of stories, The Eleventh Hour, ends with a definitive statement: "Our words fail us." It comes as a coda to a fantastical, albeit clumsily executed, all... Read More


Book review: Salman Rushdie's new collection of short stories, 'The Eleventh Hour', is burdened with recycled tropes

New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Salman Rushdie's new book of stories, The Eleventh Hour, ends with a definitive statement: "Our words fail us." It comes as a coda to a fantastical, albeit clumsily executed, all... Read More


Booker Prize 2025: Why David Szalay's 'Flesh' is a uniquely original winner

New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- David Szalay's Flesh, which won the Booker Prize 2025 on Monday, was the first of the six titles I had picked up from the shortlist to read this year. It immediately drew me in-n... Read More


Should we never speak ill of the dead?

New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- In the last few weeks, the deaths of two notable public figures-one a marketing maven who gave India some of its most memorable advertisements, and the other, an actor who was wid... Read More


Book review: 'Railsong' captures the soul of India through a railway woman's journey

New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- With a gripping memoir by Arundhati Roy, followed by a riveting novel by Kiran Desai, 2025 has turned out to be a year of comebacks for some of the best writers from India who ha... Read More