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Book Box | Three unexpected ways to introduce yourself
Experimenting with tell-me-about-yourself questions reveals creative ways of connecting with people
Published on Jun 23, 2024 12:37 AM IST
Meet V.V (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, this year's Women's Prize for Fiction winner
Ganeshananthan, the writer of a novel set during the Sri Lankan civil war, talks about the term ‘terrorist’, feminist reading groups and the craft of writing
Published on Jun 17, 2024 06:31 PM IST
Book Box | The difficulty of raising children in virtual and real worlds
The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt raises questions about the best ways to raise healthy and happy children in both the virtual and the real worlds.
Published on Jun 09, 2024 01:23 AM IST
Book Box | Meet the history buff turned spy writer Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre on the psychology of spies and how to turn historical facts into riveting spy novels
Published on Jun 02, 2024 01:39 AM IST
Book Box | Why we need spy stories
From spotting the liar, to sharpening our intuition, reading spy stories is a fun way to pick up smart skills
Published on May 25, 2024 06:42 PM IST
Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist
Six shortlisted titles set in Sri Lanka, Palestine, China, and the Aussie outback take me on an emotional journey to find the perfect Women's Prize for Fiction
Published on May 19, 2024 12:02 AM IST
Sara Rai's Raw Umber makes you crave the forgotten languages of your life
Read Raw Umber to hear Munshi Premchand’s granddaughter talk about her literary heritage and how she found her voice
Published on May 12, 2024 12:52 AM IST
Book Box | Goodbye Paul Auster and CJ Sansom, masters of mystery and intrigue
A tribute to mystery writers Paul Auster and C J Sansom, both of whom passed away in April, leaving behind their worlds of New York noir and Tudor England
Published on May 05, 2024 12:26 AM IST
Book Box | Why we must read Knife by Salman Rushdie
A different Rushdie, raw and vulnerable in his new memoir
Published on Apr 28, 2024 12:09 AM IST
Bakeries, bookstores, and beat poetry: A literary odyssey through San Francisco
A city transforms, a bookstore vanishes, but hope flourishes in hidden gems and rebellious verses.
Published on Apr 21, 2024 12:23 AM IST
Book Box | Unravelling the art of translation at London’s oldest bookstore
Two hot new reads are Charles Spencer’s boarding school memoir and the confessions of a Citibank trader. Plus, translations talk at London’s oldest bookstore.
Published on Apr 13, 2024 08:03 PM IST
Book Box | Meet Priya Narendra: The writer who loves badly behaved women
From reading stories of Noor Jehan and Elizabeth I to writing a rom com, this writer talks about her latest book on Indian women bosses
Updated on Apr 06, 2024 07:58 PM IST
Book Box | Goodbye Daniel Kahneman, whose life reads like a thriller
If you’d like to read about a brilliant economist who passed away recently and if you want to influence people, read these two books.
Published on Mar 31, 2024 11:33 PM IST
Book Box | A Chicago Bookstore Crawl
From a river dyed green to the Obamas' romantic haunt, a walk through Chicago's literary life.
Published on Mar 23, 2024 11:40 PM IST
Book Box | Mary Beard spills the tea (and rose petals) on Roman emperors
From power plays to poolside passion, this classics don reveals what we can learn from Roman history
Updated on Mar 16, 2024 08:40 PM IST
A book by a political scientist on chaos, black swans and the butterfly theory
In Fluke, author Brian Klaas brings up a question: If life is indeed all chaos and chance, how do we believe that everything we do matters?
Published on Mar 13, 2024 06:10 PM IST
Book Box | When I see a woman read
From stolen moments to public shields, the many meanings of a woman with a book
Published on Mar 09, 2024 09:00 PM IST
Book Box | Letter from Banaras
This bookish journey in Banaras includes tea with friends, tales of the Doms, and Mirza Ghalib's poetic tribute
Published on Mar 02, 2024 10:47 PM IST
Book Box | Who exposed big pharma and what do need to know about him?
The award-winning author of ‘Empire of Pain’ on what drives him to investigate and enjoy playing the skunk in the garden party
Published on Feb 23, 2024 07:26 PM IST
Book Box | From Gone Girl to gritty romance, my journey into modern love
Unpacking love today one finds romance is a myth constructed by another era. Modern stories are less seductive, but revel in what happens in the "ever after"
Published on Feb 17, 2024 11:01 PM IST
Book Box | FOMO and feasting at the Jaipur Lit Fest
Choices, conversations and chai in the cultural immersion of the Jaipur Lit Fest. Plus a list of festival-inspired 10 must-reads.
Updated on Feb 10, 2024 09:57 PM IST
Book Box | The little library garden at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
Books and films like Annapoorani and Animal, and even Marathi mutton and bhakri pop up in the library garden at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai.
Published on Feb 03, 2024 08:43 PM IST
Book Box: The destroyed fort that lives on
Conservation architect Anisha Shekhar Mukherji pieces together the stories of the Red Fort in a beautiful new edition of her book, The Red Fort of Shajahanbad.
Updated on Jan 27, 2024 09:16 PM IST
Book Box | A moving memoir offers six strategies to become a master persuader
At business school, where young professionals learn persuasion, what better teacher than the real-life campaigner for a woman’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia?
Published on Jan 20, 2024 08:43 PM IST
Book Box: William Dalrymple: The man with a foot in both camps
The founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival on growing up in Scotland and why you should go to the JLF
Published on Jan 13, 2024 11:13 PM IST
Book Box | Writers, it’s okay to be jealous
Seven books that show you the dark side of being a writer, plus antidotes to writerly jealousy
Published on Jan 07, 2024 08:30 AM IST
Book Box | Meet Mita Kapur, literary agent, food writer
The founder and CEO of Siyahi Literary Agency speaks about literary festivals, advice for writers and on cooking jungle maas
Published on Jan 01, 2024 11:59 AM IST
Book Box | Food books for a festive Christmas and holiday season
Six food books to gift the food lovers in your life at Christmas and New Year
Published on Dec 24, 2023 08:00 AM IST
Book Box | Reimagining Raghuram Rajan
A book of prescriptions on India's economic policies by a former RBI Governor and a book on capitalism by a former finance minister.
Published on Dec 17, 2023 09:00 AM IST
Book Box | Why these books became my 2023 favourites
A love-hate relationship with end-of-year book lists prompts me to dig deeper into why I read
Published on Dec 11, 2023 11:01 AM IST
