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 Hindus and the Muslims, the living and the dead.
‘Legacy’, the last chapter of An Extraordinary Life, Parrikar’s biography published by Penguin Random House India and authored by Sadguru Patil and...
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...
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...
Noted translator of Indian myths, Arshia Sattar, speaks to Outlook’s Rakhi Bose on the art and politics of translating myths.
Translated from the groundbreaking Tamil novel Pasitha Manidam (1978), Hungry Humans is set in the conservative and caste-conscious temple town of Kumbakonam...
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...
Indian Independent publishers have made a mark with focus on themes and sections of the society largely unrepresented by traditional mainstream publishers.
Khivi stepped out of the limited boundaries of the domestic and used her culinary, and organizational and managerial skills to set up and run the langar, where...
Unlike other newspaper columnists, this book's author manages to skirt the mundane everyday politics and inhabit a space that is more esoteric: books,...
The book informs us that one cannot escape the consequences of our bad Karma. No one will partake in sharing such consequences as well
The bookshop was closed after Jammu and Kashmir government didn’t extend the contract to the bookstore located at the second storey of the Jammu and Kashmir...
Sanjana Tiwari's shop is outside Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts and is a place of many activities – where people talk about literature, performing art,...
The seventh novel by the celebrated author of ‘English, August: An Indian Story’, which satirised India’s bumbling bureaucracy, is a crime thriller that...
Shafey Kidwai’s ‘Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation’ sets a new paradigm of research: it describes the AMU founder’s reformative efforts...
‘The Moonsmith Gulzar’ by Shailja Chandra revolves around Gulzar’s writings on some of the greatest themes of existence. It is a homage to the way he...
With 'Jamjaal', the world awaits the emergence of a Gujarati Proust, novelist Nazir Mansuri, whose magnum opus—expected to be the world’s longest...
Featuring 85 slots, the online sale comprised a rare catalogue of first-edition books printed from the pre-independence to the post-independence era in India,...
When 45 dog lovers come together and pen their personal accounts of affection for their beloved best friends, you pay attention. Here's why the The Book Of Dog...
A young Muslim student has been abducted from his college hostel while a leader of the Nationalist students is believed to have a hand in his disappearance....
Gay love and its various shades - here's a list of 10 books one can pick from.
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As the year draws to an end, we bring to you the top 10 Indian fictions of 2021. And a must-read they are!
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A feminist, author and activist, bell hooks, died on Wednesday at the age of 69. A look at her work and her representation as a Black feminist in the world of...
The past, with its densely scribbled carapace of tragedy and a perfect balance between nature and humanity, flows into the present, then the future, in this...
The author Sudipta Sarangi delivers exactly what he promises: Economic rationale to explain the seemingly irrational, common-day behaviour.
