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Chennai’s Easwari Lending Library preserves its storied legacy while evolving with technology

The Hindu On Books

Navayana’s win with Ambedkar biography, reading ‘Sanatan’, Kishore Mahbubani’s memoir and more

Booker Prize 2024: British writer Samantha Harvey wins for space-station novel 'Orbital'

Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani: Even though I inherited the ‘realist’ geopolitical lens of Singapore’s founding fathers, I never lost my ‘idealist’ tendencies

Kishore Mahbubani

Syeda Saiyidain Hameed.

A river in spate: growing up Muslim in a syncretic worldSyeda Saiyidain Hameed’s memoir offers remarkable lessons from an Indian past of communal amity, reminding readers of other writers like Zarina Bhatty and Hameeda Akhtar Husain Raipuri who wrote candid stories about themselves and others who broke many glass ceilings

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The winner of the Booker Prize 2024 will be announced on November 12.

Books Booker Prize 2024

Reviews Review of Ramachandra Guha’s Speaking With Nature: Under the banyan tree

The caramelised white chocolate tart

Features Shivesh Bhatia’s latest book highlights various techniques, flavour combinations with chocolate

Books Covering many acres: the oral and written tradition of tales for children

Author Jon Ransom

Interview Author Jon Ransom on queer desire and reclaiming labels in his Polari Book Prize-shortlisted novel, ‘The Gallopers’

Authors Archana Mohan’s A Sad-Happy School Day promotes empathy in children through relatable stories

Novelist Indra Soundar Rajan. File

Authors Writer Indra Soundar Rajan passes away in Madurai

Salman Rushdie holds a copy of the newly-published paperback version of his controversial novel “The Satatanic Verses”, during a speech in Arlington, Virginia on March 24, 1992. India was one of the first countries to ban the book’s import and sale, citing concerns over its content being offensive to the Muslim community. Photo: AP/PTI

India Delhi HC permits man to buy The Satanic Verses after Centre fails to produce notification banning the book

The Hindu On Books Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’, Aditya Iyer’s ‘Gully Gully’ and more

Albert Camus posing for a portrait in Paris in 1957.

Books ‘The First Man’: Camus, sentimentalism and colonial legacy

The Hindu Lit Fest

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Syeda Saiyidain Hameed.

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A view of the Madras Literary Society inside the DPI Complex on College Road in Chennai.

Two libraries that are integral to Chennai’s vintage identity to be restored soon

A young reader at Easwari Lending Library

Chennai’s Easwari Lending Library preserves its storied legacy while evolving with technology

Prema Srinivasan’s Pure Vegetarian delves into traditional South Indian recipes

Into the world of pure vegetarian cooking with Prema Srinivasan

Ananyaa Desikan

The novel is set in a fictional village in the foothills of the Western Ghats, and is narrated by multiple voices.

“Human beings are helplessly fake”: Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari, author of JCB Prize-shortlisted Chronicle of an Hour and a Half

Akila Kannadasan

Though the Amazon Audible library in India is smaller, here is how to make the most of it [File]

How to make the most of your Amazon Audible subscription

The Hindu Bureau

Navayana’s win with Ambedkar biography, reading ‘Sanatan’, Kishore Mahbubani’s memoir and more

Author Ashok Gopal. File

NIF Book Prize 2024: Ashok Gopal bags award for his Ambedkar biography ‘A Part Apart’

The Hindu Bureau

Twenty-seven lakh book lovers visited the last book fair in 2024 and the book sales amounted to ₹23 crore. File

In a first, Germany to be theme country at Kolkata book fair 2025

Bishwanath Ghosh

Author Jon Ransom

Author Jon Ransom on queer desire and reclaiming labels in his Polari Book Prize-shortlisted novel, ‘The Gallopers’

A near-deserted road in Mumbai after a state-wide strike was declared to protest the Bhima-Koregaon violence against Dalits in January 2018.

Breaking free | Review of Sharankumar Limbale’s ‘Sanatan’, translated by Paromita Sengupta

Sumana Mukherjee

Rabindranath Tagore

Review of Ramachandra Guha’s Speaking With Nature: Under the banyan tree

Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani: Even though I inherited the ‘realist’ geopolitical lens of Singapore’s founding fathers, I never lost my ‘idealist’ tendencies

Kishore Mahbubani

Avanigadda MLA Mandali Buddha Prasad taking a look at the books at an exhibition, being organised as part of the National Library Week, in Vijayawada on Thursday..

Week-long book expo begins in Vijayawada

The Hindu Bureau

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