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Illustration: Saahil : The Trio: Arundhati Roy
with her mother and brother during their Ooty days

Hail Mary: Book Review Of Arundhati Roy's 'Mother Mary Comes To Me'

BY Vineetha Mokkil

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In The Country Of Longing

BY Avantika Mehta

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Departure(s) by Julian Barnes: Last Novel Blending Memoir, Fiction, Illness and Love

BY Vineetha Mokkil

| Photo: Adrian Pope : Radical Reader: Ruth Martin has translated a wide range of fiction and non-fiction into English

From Tehran to Germany: Ruth Martin Discusses Translating Shida Bazyar and Crossing Literary Borders

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Author Amitav Ghosh

Of Fiction And Philosophy: Review Of Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost Eye

BY Akshat Upadhyay

Illustration: Saahil

Death Will Follow: A Murder Mystery Of Electoral Fraud, Land Grab And A Vanishing Voter In Habibpur

BY Shahrukh Alam

50 Stories -
by Paul Zacharia

What Lies Beneath: Review of Paul Zacharia’s ‘50 Stories’

Cover by Juggernaut Books : Vishnu Som recounts crucial details of the four-day war, such as India’s destruction, on May 8, of Pakistan’s surface-to-air missile unit near Lahore, a critical defence network; and how, caught on the back foot.

The Sky Warriors: Operation Sindoor Unveiled

BY Alpana Chowdhury

Penguin Random House India

Book Review | Zoramthanga’s Memoir Stays With The Insurgency And Leaves The Peace At A Distance

BY Sangmuan Hangsing

Source: Vitasta Publishing : Cover of Tales of Modern India Eight stories by Tagore translated by Soumitra Das

Harveting The Past To Enrich The Present: Tales Of Modern India

Source: HarperCollins India : Cover of Death Comes to Matheran by Shabnam Minwalla

Death Comes To Matheran: Revisiting A ‘Perfect Accident’ That Wasn’t |Book Review

Outlook Team : Every year, on April 23, UNESCO celebrates World Book Day to rejoice in the magic of books and the joy of reading.

Culture & Society

World Book Day: Celebrating The Magic Of Reading And The Written Word

BY Outlook News Desk

Penguin India : ‘Dalit Women And The Fullness Of Life’

Book Excerpt: Documenting Lived Experiences In ‘Dalit Women And The Fullness Of Life’

BY Christina Dhanuja

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

What It Is To Be A Man

Transforming Rights: Transgender Lives Against Legal Exclusion| Book Excerpt

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Book Excerpt: Reflections On Time And Impermanence In ‘The Hour of God’

BY Vinita Agrawal

Cover of The Durian Flavour by Gurjit Singh

The Durian Flavour: A Timely Guide to Deepening India-ASEAN Ties | Book Review

BY Jaideep Mazumdar

Source: Harper Collins India : A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report exposed that in 2018-19, the Union government withheld 1 lakh crore rupees of the 2.75 lakh crore rupees collected through various cesses in the Consolidated Fund of India (CFI).

Book Excerpt: 'Politics, Policy And Predictions', By Derek O’Brien

BY Derek O`Brien

Jaico Publishing House : On April 13, 1919, thousands of families are celebrating the Baisakhi festival inside Jallianwala Bagh, unaware of Colonel Dyer's proclamation banning public gatherings.

Book Excerpt: Vermilion Harvest - Playtime At The Bagh: By Reenita Hora

BY Reenita M. Hora

HarperCollins India : Vikram and Vetala - A Transformative Retelling: The prose is lush and immersive, painting cemeteries, moonlit landscapes, and tense moral gambles in vivid, colourful detail.

The King, The Corpse, And The Curse: Book Review Of Vikram And Vetala - A Transformative Retelling

BY Jinit Parmar

Melville House

Book Excerpt: When Love, Art And Upheaval Collide in Ali Araghi’s The Immortals Of Tehran

Prophecies For Our Time: The Future Huxley and Orwell Foretold

Prophecies For Our Time: The Future Huxley and Orwell Foretold

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Westland Books : Unmechanical: Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments

Art & Entertainment

“Melodrama Hochhe Ekta Birthright”: A Long-due Ode To Ritwik Da, With Love

BY Rini Dasgupta

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Book review |Beings and Beasts: Human–Animal Relations At The Margin

BY Dr. Neeraj Bunkar

Pujani Pradhan

Life Of Puja Controversy: In Bullies We Trust

BY Anirban Ghosh

Bloomsbury : The Epistemic Archeology of Ashish Avikunthak

Art & Entertainment

Tantra, Religiosity, Archaeology: The Cinema Of Ashish Avikunthak

BY PK Surendran

Orient Blackswan : The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema

Art & Entertainment

An Audio-visual Diptych: The Female Playback And Cinematic Sensorium

BY Kiranmayi Indraganti

Outlook Team : The writer acknowledges that even attempting to uncover the truth would ultimately add new layers of myth and make his personal connection to Khasak even dearer, leaving him still undecided about making the journey.

A Reader's Diary: In Love With Khasak, Haunted By Thasrak

BY Rithwik Bhattathiri

Fragment of the Infinite Artwork by Masood Hussain

An Absence of Answers: Grief, Surveillance, And The Unravelling Of A Mother’s World

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Book Review of The Bucket

What Lies Beneath: Book Review of The Bucket

Representative Image : KLF Book Awards 2026 Longlist Announced, Spotlights India’s Literary Powerhouses

KLF Book Awards 2026 Longlist Announced, Spotlights India’s Literary Powerhouses

BY Outlook News Desk

Photo: Author Instagram : Mirza Waheed's Maryam & Son resists resolution. Instead, it inhabits uncertainty, what it feels like to live inside a question that has no answer.

Beyond Suspicion And Stereotypes: Author Mirza Waheed On Maryam & Son

BY Zenaira Bakhsh

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