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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
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...
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...
In this review of the guidebook, we’ll be looking into its various aspects to see if it is really worth trying out.
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Himachal Pradesh’s State Department of Language Art and Culture in collaboration with The National Book Trust (NBT) has organised this book fair
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...
‘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...
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.