March 03, 2024 04:58 PM ISTThe Pearson vending machine was equipped with a 'Prepare Well' hashtag painted on it.
March 02, 2024 09:14 AM IST Exploring the motivations behind the literary ambitions of autocratic leaders like Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Joseph Stalin (d. 1953), Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) and Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011).
February 25, 2024 03:21 PM IST While family businesses constitute about 75% of the Indian economy a whopping 90% of them are MSMEs. The new book 'Beyond Three Generations: The Definitive Guide to Building Enduring Indian Family Businesses' profiles a dozen such enterprises, their business dimensions and what such firms should not do.
February 17, 2024 01:20 PM IST Kannada author Vivek Shanbhag, of Ghachar Ghochar fame, on what interests him in a story, continued collaboration with Srinath Perur and the future of writing in the age of AI.
February 11, 2024 12:55 PM IST 400 years after Sir Thomas Roe visited India, while yoga mats have become necessary personal accessories in the West, mobility, visa restrictions, and rights of international students continue to be flashpoints between New Delhi and London; and India and the UK are locked up in hard negotiations to finalise a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.
February 10, 2024 01:17 PM IST Bestselling books: The rewards of reading fiction that isn’t critically acclaimed and doesn’t win literary awards.
February 08, 2024 04:23 PM IST 'You want to be gay? Fine be gay. Just don’t do it around children,' Valentina Gomez's campaign director said in a statement.
February 08, 2024 06:00 PM IST Book review: A scholarly history of sex, from asexual prokaryotes to primate play dates and the storied quest for orgasms - from the writer of The Shortest History of Our Universe.
February 04, 2024 09:08 PM IST The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on his book Trust which was on Barack Obama’s list of Favourite Books of 2022.
February 04, 2024 06:53 PM IST After 'Do Epic Shit' (2021) and 'Get Epic Shit Done' (2022), entrepreneur and content creator Ankur Warikoo is out with his third book 'Make Epic Money' to offer practical, self-tested advice on financial planning and wealth creation.
February 04, 2024 07:24 PM IST With self-deprecating frankness, Guha details his growth as a writer in the hands of his editor Rukun Advani. The memoir, a rich mine for budding writers, looks back at a vanished pre-internet publishing world, where books were celebrated more than authors.
February 04, 2024 08:43 AM IST The professor of English Literature says his entire collection of books is worth more than Rs 1 crore.
February 03, 2024 06:01 PM IST One of the speakers at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2024, the celebrated travel writer spoke about his 10th travel book The Amur River and why travel writing needs to survive.
January 27, 2024 10:57 AM IST Mysteries and thrillers aren’t just a form of escapism. Crime fiction can also offer valuable insights into the state of the world, mirroring the societal anxieties and power dynamics at work today.
January 27, 2024 01:17 AM IST Though the pursuit of the extraordinary appeals to all, it’s the difference one makes in their everyday life that matters. If you’re falling short on inspiration this Republic Day, here is a list of books and stories by Indians from diverse walks of life to keep you going.
January 26, 2024 11:19 AM IST Men are usually not interested in things like health and nutrition in the villages. The women had to be motivated. It’s a wonderful thing to witness a seed grow into a plant, says author of ‘Treevolution’, Wg. Cdr. Sharad Chaturvedi (retd.)
January 21, 2024 01:36 PM IST International Booker Prize-winning American translator Daisy Rockwell on the absence of panel discussions on the genocide in Palestine at Indian literature festivals, misinformation, and how translations are poorly marketed.
January 21, 2024 02:39 PM IST Nuts & Bolts: How the invention of tiny nails, spring, magnet, lens, string, wheel and pump defined the world of complex technology.
January 19, 2024 01:50 PM IST At 47th International Kolkata Book Fair, January 18-31, British structural engineer Roma Agrawal talks about her new book ‘Nuts and Bolts’ on small inventions that made possible complex machines: nail, wheel, spring, magnet, lens, string, pump
January 13, 2024 09:55 AM IST TBR: A look at the reasons why our to-be-read piles keep growing higher and higher.
January 07, 2024 05:04 PM IST With a politically contentious issue like AI, it is all the more important that readers access a wide range of views and then make up their own minds.
January 06, 2024 09:39 PM IST An author prompted artificial intelligence to create a 3,000-word story, the tool rendered an 821-word response. Another found the plot remained the same on multiple attempts.
January 06, 2024 05:04 PM IST Authors who have sampled Artificial Intelligence tools, ChatGPT-3 to Dall-E, are unanimous on its lack of human connection and imagination and how their end-user will be someone who profits off others’ labour.
January 06, 2024 11:46 AM IST A Passage to India is a powerful assay into the muddled relations between the rulers and the ruled. Today, the passage of Forster’s book has come full circle.
January 06, 2024 11:09 AM IST Reading habits: There can be many valid reasons for leaving a book unfinished, and there’s no need to continue till the last page.
