The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union ...

Jasimuddin remembered singing songs to himself. He could not remember the words but remembered putting his own words into ...

But we will say this: social occasions don’t always need to be about going to the pub. We should all be a bit more active in ...

This collection of essays written over the span of a quarter century by literary critic Brooke Allen is elegant, erudite, and ...

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah founded Hyderabad in 1591 by turning crisis into vision. Escaping plague and overcrowding in Golconda ...

New Delhi World Book Fair 2026 runs from January 10 to 18 at Bharat Mandapam with a military history theme, global authors, ...

From the Ozempic story to books on power, money and the new world order — plus fiction by Julian Barnes, Amitav Ghosh and ...

You’re Dead to Me Radio 4/BBC Sounds, 10am Greg Jenner certainly has a knack for making history amusing, a gift he ...

Ila Mitra transformed suffering into resistance, becoming one of the subcontinent’s most enduring symbols of courage.

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

The fiction and non-fiction titles set to dominate group chats, book clubs and bedside tables in the months ahead.