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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

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

Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari

Intimate Encounters With Unmappable, Unforgettable Places

BY Sreemanti Sengupta

Representative Image : The Architecture of Hostility: Reviewing Afshin Matin-Asgari’s Axis of Empire

The Architecture of Hostility: Review Of Afshin Matin-Asgari’s Axis of Empire

BY Peerzada Mahboob Ul Haq

Illustration: Saahil : The seeing and the manner in which we see; the reporting of what we have seen is also what makes us a witness.

Eyes Wide Shut: The Collapse Of Truth And The Refuge Of Memory

BY Naveen Kishore

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Winter Will One Day Be Past: Review Of 'Umar Khalid And His World'

BY Tanika Sarkar

Rupa Publications : The novel has asked its questions without insisting on answers. What does it mean to forgive? When a woman renounces everything, is that defeat or is it something else entirely? The questions linger, as they should.

Book Review: 'The Renunciation,' Sita's Unspoken Story

BY Jinit Parmar

Speaking Tiger Books : That decision is justified as “practical” and “lucky” for a young widow, laying bare a society in which a woman’s grief, desire, and consent are all negotiable commodities.

Simrita Dhir’s The Song Of Distant Bulbuls Rewrites Punjab’s Partition Through Women’s Eyes

BY Disha Dahiya

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Book Excerpt: 'Daktarin Jamini Sen: The Extraordinary Life Of British India's First Woman Doctor'

BY Deepta Roy Chakraverti

Despite Biddy's lightness, the weight of the past spares no one.

Book Review: The Magnificent Ruins

This Too Is A Story | Mannu Bhandari | Translated by Poonam Saxena | Penguin Random House | Rs 599 | 280 pages

Book Review: Parallel Lives, Shared Legacy Of Hindi's Trailblazer Writers

BY Simar Puneet

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Creeping Shadows: Aruna Chakravarti's Haunting Tales Of Psychological Dread

The novel doesn't just focus on the skin condition; it delves into how fragile teenage bestieships are, exposing a world of micro-aggressions and one-upmanship.

Silence Isn’t Just The Absence Of Sound

Penguin : Cover of Rebellion in Verse: Rebellion and Resistance in the Tamil Bhakti Movement by Raghavan Srinivasan

The Neglected Interface of Hinduism and Its Foundation

Review: The Dead Fish, A Fugitive Novel for Our Times

Review: The Dead Fish, A Fugitive Novel For Our Times

BY Ashutosh Kumar Pandey

Amazon : Mr. Prasad’s response is direct. He argues for stricter cost regimes and more realistic interest awards, so that courts do not become safe shelters for delay.

Unshackling The Elephant By Anand Prasad: Insights On Indian Justice System Reform

BY Pranjal Kishore

Unknown City

Book Review: No Easy Redemptions in This Unknown City

| Photo: Imago/Zuma Press Wire : Image from the Epstein Files: A photo of a woman’s foot with a quote from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita

Writing With Fire: Literature In A Post-Epstein World

BY Saikat Majumdar

Photo: Imago/Zuma Press Wire : Braveheart: Virginia Giuffre, one of the first women to speak up about being abused by Epstein, holds up a photo of herself as a teenager

Virginia Giuffre: The Woman With The Dragon Tattoo

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Youtube : Pico Iyer in Marty Supreme

The Cameos You Almost Miss: When Writers Turn Up on Screen

BY Suresh Menon

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Book Excerpt: Shadows Of Azadi

BY Shugufta Zahid

Niyogi Books : Colour My Grave Purple by Shehnab Sahin

Echoes Of Authority, Resistance, And Belonging

There are flashes of what made her the writer we know to be discovered but, for the most part, the stories are young and untried.

Harper Lee’s Lost Stories, Making Of A Classic | Book Review

Fourth Estate Publishing
: Book Review Of The Robe And The Sword

Book Review Of The Robe And The Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia

BY Jinit Parmar

| Photo: PTI : Literary Legacies: Authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai at the Exide Kolkata Literary Meet on January 16, 2026

Geographical Multiverses: Migration, Dislocation, And Belonging In Global Literature

BY Sreemanti Sengupta

| Photo: Narendra Bisht : Mark Tully

Mark Tully: The Foreigner India Came To Trust

BY Harish Khare

Srishti Publishers : Bound by Belief by Shivi Sethi released by Srishti Publishers on 10 December 2025

Shivi Sethi’s Debut Novel Explores Inner Strength, Self Discovery

BY Krishnayan Sen

Sandipan Chatterjee : Deborah Baker

Deborah Baker Revisits Allen Ginsberg’s India Years at Exide Kolkata Literary Meet

BY Sreemanti Sengupta

I knew that the National Human Rights Commission had noted thirty-one cases of fake encounter killings in Maharashtra alone in the previous five years.

Book Excerpt: Colours Of The Cage: A Prison Memoir, By Arun Ferreira

BY Outlook News Desk

‘Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist’ by Seema Azad

Book Excerpt|Unsilenced: The Jail Diary Of An Activist, By Seema Azad

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