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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

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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

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“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

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Tantra, Religiosity, Archaeology: The Cinema Of Ashish Avikunthak

BY PK Surendran

Orient Blackswan : The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema

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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

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

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