Some medieval books can’t be read by anyone, and one of them has become almost a trademark of the genre: the Voynich manuscript, kept at Yale University and dated to the 15th century. It has inspired novels and theories of every kind. Specialists often place another volume right behind it on the list of enigmas, […]

Neera Chandhoke reads Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi and Bimal Roy as political thinkers, finding in their poetry and cinema a view of freedom as a horizon that we must continuously fight to reimagine.

Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel set in an alternative Paris, Ramachandra Guha’s exploration of the complex relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar, and much more ...

Hunger, caste, and colonial power intersect with devastating consequences in Jeyamohan’s powerful novel centred on a colonial building in Chennai.

Raghavan Srinivasan posits the Bhakti movement in Tamilakam as an early instance of resistance to power structures, yet his study leaves several important issues untouched or only briefly mentioned.

Irwin Allan Sealy travels in the US in search of a cluster of ancient Tamil yoginis, carved in stone and now scattered across museums, only to find them in unexpected people and places. 

Deep, comprehensive, and demanding, Mammals of India by A.J.T. Johnsingh and P.O. Nameer is a natural cousin of S.H. Prater’s The Book of Indian Animals.

How to sleep like Jesus is not a prescription for how many hours you need to sleep each night. It is about progressively transforming into someone who can entrust both their sleeping and their waking to God. If sleep doesn’t come, this perspective of trust allows you to pray openly and honestly to the Lord.... Continue Reading

A lot of the practices that go under the heading of meditation are things that essentially try to manipulate physiology, like postures and breathing techniques, to try to push away all the distractions, clear the mind, and get to a quiet headspace. Whereas the meditation commended in Scripture—in Psalm 1 and picked up by the... Continue Reading

An invaluable selection of poet Adil Jussawalla’s private collection is live on the website of The Bombay Poetry Crawl.

Tourism may give one the impression of seeing an unexplored world, but novels help one imagine it. As such, reading novels is a good way of discovering another country.

If you are looking for a language that probes the meaning of love and grief and all that makes us human, Carson’s books are for you.

Czech literature, artificial intelligence, audiobooks, long standing participation and freedom of expression shaped five days of international publishing business and public debate The Frankfurt Book Fair welcomed 236,000 visitors from 137 countries in 2026, sustaining its position as the international publishing industry’s principal meeting place. Across five days, the fair combined rights negotiations and professional […]

The ornithologist on a life spent studying birds, his association with Dr Sálim Ali, and the urgent need to protect India’s grasslands and wetlands.

Tahmima Anam’s new novel is a short and succinct cautionary tale about the wages of exploitation, whether of women or of the environment.

The 2026 International Booker shortlisted novel is a restrained saga that approaches complex questions with remarkable subtlety.

Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labor takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.

For a novel centred on the Great Irish Famine of Ireland, Maggie O’Farrell’s Land is surprisingly insulated from pain.  

Veteran diplomat Rajiv Dogra’s new book argues that the well-being of a nation depends on the quality of its leadership, and that expansion carries within itself the seeds of exhaustion that eventually bring empires down.

Using the 20th century as a case in point, the book shows how authoritarianism can take hold of a society, grow, and sustain itself.