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Book Box: Halfway through 2026, the books worth reading and skipping

India, June 28 -- Dear Reader, So, this week, I've read approximately nothing. Okay, maybe a few pages here and there, but nothing that counts. Instead, I've been building bookshelves, actually sitti... और पढ़ें


Book Box: The Fathers We Forgive

India, June 21 -- Dear Reader, When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I admired Mr. Bennet. There he was, sitting in his library surrounded by books, urbane and ironic, taking pithy potshots at Mrs.... और पढ़ें


Book Box: How to Paint a Tree

India, June 14 -- Dear Reader, In the morning we carry our sketchbooks to Sabali, the coffee shop perched above the river Manalsu. The rains have stopped, the day is clear. All around us are hillside... और पढ़ें


Book Box: How to read Taiwan Travelogue

India, May 31 -- Dear Reader, Do you find some prize-winning novels hard to read? Like One Hundred Years of Solitude? I was eighteen years old and staying in my uncle's house, taking Delhi Transport... और पढ़ें


Book Box: The death of the author?

India, May 24 -- Dear Reader, Like many writers, I have become obsessed with AI. Give me a piece of recent writing and my brain begins to whir, trying to spot the ghost in the wires. I scan text for... और पढ़ें


Book Box: Can you bottle a Goddess?

India, May 17 -- Dear Reader, It's early morning in the forest and I feel a tap on my arm. All around and above me are ancient deodar cedar trees, their sap-green, needle-covered branches rising a h... और पढ़ें


Book Box: Cracking the mother-daughter code

India, May 10 -- We are lying on a mattress in the garden, the long grass tickling our bare toes, the mountain sun warming our backs. Ahead of us, up on a deodar tree, a glossy blue-black Himalayan cr... और पढ़ें


Book Box interviews Pallavi Aiyar on grief, travel, and writing

India, May 3 -- Dear Reader, Writer and foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar opened up about grief and illness with the wit and honesty and the deeply personal journey behind her latest book Travels i... और पढ़ें


Book Box: Yesteryear and the house that wasn't mine

India, April 26 -- Dear Reader, Yesterday, a stranger walks into our house. A tall man with a sunburned face and heavy-set eyes, he takes off his chappals at the doorway and proceeds to walk in, casu... और पढ़ें


Book Box: Tell the story of your life in three objects

India, April 19 -- Dear Reader, In Manali, the light streams in early, lighting up our bedroom at 5:30 am. It's deliciously cozy under the quilt, but I think about my to-do list. Time to head downsta... और पढ़ें