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Salesmen sell books at the city square as citizens carry on with their daily lives in Lviv, which is one of the safest cities since the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine despite the occasional sirens and possible attacks in Ukraine on February 17, 2023.

Ukraine War: How Russian Invasion Targeted Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage And Books Became Instruments Of War

Ukrainian and independent experts believe the targeted attacks at cultural sites and destruction of Ukrainian books is deliberate erasure of Ukrainian culture. They see it as part of a deliberate effort by Russia to...

22 February 2023

Oxford Bookstore owner Priti Paul

There Is Revenge Reading After Pandemic, Bookstores Are Here To Stay: Oxford Bookstores’ Owner Priti Paul

Oxford Bookstores owner Priti Paul tells Outlook that she thinks that people spent so much time online during the Covid-19 lockdowns that they are in revenge mode now, just like there has emerged revenge tourism and revenge...

23 January 2023

Deep into the night...

Book Review -- Dead End: The Minister, The CBI And The Murder That Wasn’t

In 'Dead End: The Minister, the CBI and the Murder That Wasn’t', veteran journalist V. Sudarshan chooses this very episode to weave a true crime narrative that keeps in view both the compelling human drama at the heart of...

03 December 2022

An old-Delhi view.

Book Review: Attribution Before The Storm

The book takes its title from verses by Qadir Baksh a lesser-known Urdu poet who wrote under the takhallus ‘Sabir’ and who referred to the number of houses that the British razed in Delhi, making Liddle’s account of...

18 February 2023

Dark Age Defense

Dark Age Defense Reviews - Scam Program or Legit Guide to Buy?

Dark Age Defense is a handbook or a program that teaches people the method to build infinite coils by themselves at home. This program is very useful in times of emergency, like power outages.

05 January 2023

The Fabulous Creature Buraq. (Date: ca. 1660–80)

Book Review: Speaking in Tongues: Poems in Spanish, Mandarin, and Turkish

All said and done, too, Speaking in Tongues is, throughout, a book of travels. A journey through life; a journey, in different ways, through the world. A broadening of horizons, an exploration of the inside and the outside....

12 November 2022

The bookstagram culture has made reading more about the visual aesthetic than the act of reading, writes Nuzhat Khan.

Bookstagram Is Where Reading Goes To Die

Reading is essentially reduced to daily statistics, expediting into uncritical mass consumption where more books are hoarded than read. It has largely come to center around: how many books do you own, how many books you...

29 January 2023

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A journey gone wrong...

Book Extract: A Journey Gone Wrong

Gita Viswanath is a Baroda-based writer. She is the author of two novels - Twice it Happened, (2019) and A Journey Gone Wrong (2022). She is also the author of a non-fiction book, The ‘Nation’ in War: A Study of Military...

05 November 2022

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11 October 2022
Naga Writer Temsula Ao's Demise Leaves Hills She Called Home In Grief

Naga Writer Temsula Ao's Demise Leaves Hills She Called Home In Grief

Dr. Temsula Ao belonged to the rare category of poets who used poetry as a strong social tool to infuse the voices and concerns of her land and people. She...


27 September 2022
Dark Age Defense Reviews - Scam or Legit Survival Book? [Amazon Update]

Dark Age Defense Reviews - Scam or Legit Survival Book? [Amazon Update]

In this review of the guidebook, we’ll be looking into its various aspects to see if it is really worth trying out. 


17 September 2022
Book Excerpt: Here And Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life In Literature

Book Excerpt: Here And Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life In Literature

'Traces of the Europe Nirmal Verma invented can be found in all his books. But it was with 'Shabd Aur Smriti' that I first encountered this imaginary...


14 September 2022
Hindi Diwas: It's Time For Hindi To Get Its Due In The World Of Literary Translations

Hindi Diwas: It's Time For Hindi To Get Its Due In The World Of Literary Translations

The important role Hindi always played has finally begun to get its recognition after nearly 150 years. The world’s mirror has moved towards Hindi earlier as...


14 August 2022
Book Review: Interior Monologue of A Diasporic Woman

Book Review: Interior Monologue of A Diasporic Woman

The book under review is named after the title poem 'Woman by the Door', which represents the interior monologue of a diasporic woman who confesses, 'I sit by...


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14 August 2022
Book Review: These Errors Are Correct by Jeet Thayil

Book Review: These Errors Are Correct by Jeet Thayil

The reviewer finds that Jeet Thayil’s 'ageless poems on the all-too-familiar emotions of love, loss, and longing that control the human mind like marionette...


13 August 2022
Reflecting The Human Through Magic Realism, The Craft Of Salman Rushdie

Reflecting The Human Through Magic Realism, The Craft Of Salman Rushdie

The last interaction I had with Salman Rushdie was the night before his horrific stabbing. He had posted a serene photo of the full moon on Lake Chautauqua and...


06 August 2022
Sonnet Mondal’s An Afternoon In My Mind - A Book Of Million Moments

Sonnet Mondal’s An Afternoon In My Mind - A Book Of Million Moments

The dewdrop and the insect make the world beautiful, but even if their lives are momentary, they continue to lend their beauty. The dewdrop and the...


02 July 2022
Book Review: Repression, Resistance and Great Power Game

Book Review: Repression, Resistance and Great Power Game

In this 500-page work, Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad presents issues covering most of the important countries of West Asia and North Africa (WANA), its history,...


28 June 2022
Head To Shimla’s Ongoing 9-Day Book Fair

Head To Shimla’s Ongoing 9-Day Book Fair

Himachal Pradesh’s State Department of Language Art and Culture in collaboration with The National Book Trust (NBT) has organised this book fair


18 June 2022
Book Review | 'Data Peer': Longing For A Long-Gone, Harmonious World

Book Review | 'Data Peer': Longing For A Long-Gone, Harmonious World

Hrishikesh Sulabh’s latest Hindi novel, Data Peer, set in a Patna locality called Peermuhani, brings alive a world where the spirit of coexistence binds the...


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11 June 2022
Book Excerpt | Legacy: How Monohar Parrikar Missed His Chance At Greatness

Book Excerpt | Legacy: How Monohar Parrikar Missed His Chance At Greatness

‘Legacy’, the last chapter of An Extraordinary Life, Parrikar’s biography published by Penguin Random House India and authored by Sadguru Patil and...


04 June 2022
Book Review: It Does Not Die

Book Review: It Does Not Die

In a world obsessed with staying young, one can guess what lies at the heart of the Hidden Hindu. Gupta presses the right buttons of violence, hackers and...


02 June 2022
Indian Mythology: Of Retellings And Translations

Indian Mythology: Of Retellings And Translations

Noted translator of Indian myths, Arshia Sattar, speaks to Outlook’s Rakhi Bose on the art and politics of translating myths.


28 May 2022
Fiction: Caste A Long Shadow

Fiction: Caste A Long Shadow

Translated from the groundbreaking Tamil novel Pasitha Manidam (1978), Hungry Humans is set in the conservative and caste-conscious temple town of Kumbakonam...


30 April 2022
The Black Magic Women: Searing Tales Of Racism, Misogyny And Violence From Assam

The Black Magic Women: Searing Tales Of Racism, Misogyny And Violence From Assam

Moushumi Kandali's stories are crafted carefully and therein lies the overall slight: they are too well constructed in terms of themes and the references they...


29 April 2022
World Book Day: Here Are Five Independent Publishers Making A Mark In India

World Book Day: Here Are Five Independent Publishers Making A Mark In India

Indian Independent publishers have made a mark with focus on themes and sections of the society largely unrepresented by traditional mainstream publishers. 


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