Sahitya Akademi announces 2025 winners: Navtej Sarna, Mamta Kalia, and Sa Tamilselvan among 24 awardees
Eight Sahitya Akademi winners were recognised in poetry, six in short fiction, four in the novel, two in the essay …
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What is Swedish death cleaning? Margareta Magnusson, who taught the world to tidy up before signing off, dies at 92
What Marie Kondo is to tidying, Margareta Magnusson is to dying. Japanese organising consultant Marie Kondo taught the world to …
3 Jurgen Habermas books on democracy — and the debates they could not settle
It is a mark of a great philosopher when you keep carrying their ideas years and decades after the book …
Who was a Hindu? Shashi Tharoor revisits Sree Narayana Guru’s vision of reform in new book
Who was a Hindu in 1921? That year, the Census commissioner ruefully noted that “no Indian is familiar with the …
In ‘Place’, Ananya Vajpeyi Maps Grief, Politics and the Soul of Cities
The Victorians had a name for it: Melancholia. However, underlying the overwhelming sense of sadness that permeates much of Ananya …
Guns, Empire and the ‘Mortecene’
The making of the modern world was accompanied by extraordinary violence, exploitation and environmental devastation. But what if modern history …
Absent People, Absent Places: Bombay, breath, and the beautiful burden of being present
Some books arrive quietly. Others arrive like Bombay in the monsoon — sudden, cinematic, rain-slicked with memory and movement. Saranya …