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Who were the unsung artists behind colonial India's rich botanical paintings?

New Delhi, Jan. 25 -- "These are palimpsests that combine art and science," says taxonomist, curator and botanical historian Henry J. Noltie by way of explaining the paintings we are looking at. Creat... Read More


Book Review: Mirza Waheed's new novel tests the limits of a mother's love and faith

New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- Mirza Waheed's new novel, Maryam & Son, tells the story of Maryam Ali, a 46-year-old school chef of British Indian origin living in East London, and her search for her son, Dilaw... Read More


Book review: In Amitav Ghosh's 'Ghost-Eye', the climate crisis meets the supernatural

New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- Amitav Ghosh's new novel, Ghost-Eye, takes ahead the story he had started telling in The Hungry Tide (2004), set in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal's Gangetic delta region, threat... Read More


Winnie the Pooh turns 100 and remains a symbol of hope for navigating a complicated world

New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- I don't know about you but I am taking Winnie the Pooh, the beloved teddy bear from British writer A.A. Milne's stories, as my role model into the new year. Let me give you my to... Read More


Why banning kids from the internet might do more harm than good

New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- If you are a parent wondering about how to reduce your child's screen time in the new year, you are not alone. Two judges of the Madurai bench of the Madras high court recently ur... Read More


Why 2025 was the year the idea of the office reinvented itself again

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- In more senses than one, 2025 became the year when workplaces across the world had the rudest awakening since the shake-up by the covid-19 pandemic five years ago. To begin with... Read More


In Inez Baranay's new novel, three Muslim women meet a Turkish freedom fighter in Gandhi's India

New Delhi, Dec. 28 -- In 1935, Halide Edib, who had fought alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk for the emancipation of Turkey from the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, visited India to deliver a series of lec... Read More


Do book critics still matter in the age of influencers?

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- It's that time of year again when, as a book critic, I'm expected to compile a list of my favourite reads of 2025. My colleagues and I have done such a roundup, but even as I was... Read More


Can the 'Right to Disconnect' bill counter chronic burnout in India's always-on work culture?

New Delhi, Dec. 15 -- Last week, Supriya Sule, member of Parliament from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), introduced a private members' bill in the Lok Sabha which ignited a heated discussion onl... Read More


Sita Bhaskar's new novel is a modern-day throwback to RK Narayan's 'Malgudi Days'

New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- At the end of her charming novel Rukmini Aunty and the R.K. Narayan Fan Club, Sita Bhaskar quotes the Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith's admiration for the much-loved creat... Read More