Literature

In uncovering how CCD was run as a one-man show, this book weaves a cautionary tale for investors, regulators, consumers, and even fellow journalists

Barbieland is a book written from outside Barbieland's high-security gates; we meet Hitt - an editor and contributor with The Drift magazine

Salman Rushdie's latest work blends fiction, memory, myth, and mortality, offering a deeply personal meditation shaped by near-death, nostalgia, and literary playfulness

The book opens with Mr Zaidi's journey to meet a mysterious figure who people call Akka, once a key aide to one of Mumbai's mob bosses Varadarajan Mudaliar

Yiyun Li is an award-winning Chinese-American author with multiple novels and short story collections to her name

A sharp, immersive look at phone fraud networks, their victims, and the hidden economies that keep them alive

Simon Winchester's The Breath of the Gods explores how wind has shaped exploration, disaster, innovation, and imagination, even as its future remains uncertain

A timely collection reflects on democratic ideals, coalition failures, federalism and the need for active citizenship as India debates the future of its political culture

Ms Gupta's selection captures not the speeches alone but the parry and thrust that goes on between the treasury and Opposition benches. CPI (M) leader, late Sitaram Yechury never disrupted parliament

In a sense, the book is a kind of quiet revolution, reclaiming the voice and identity of Indian girls across generations

It tells the story of an unexpected journey into Hindu philosophy during a period of personal turmoil

The Great Math War does something most popular math books don't; it situates mathematics in the context of the people doing the mathematics - and the lives they were living outside the profession

November 4 marked the centenary of Ghatak, Indian cinema's rebel auteur. Along with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, he is often hailed as one of Bengali cinema's three maestros

This narrative about India's development is described as an odyssey, perhaps because of the policy shortfalls and mishaps in the development voyage

As Scott Miller writes in Let My Country Awake, the story of the anticolonial Ghadar movement, Indian migrant workers soon found themselves attracted to radical labour organisations

The book is a compelling study of FTII's early years, revealing how great institutions can decay over time due to mismanagement and the failures of those entrusted to protect them

The world has become firmly divided into two camps. One side believes that AI will solve almost all our problems pretty soon. The other worries about the emerging dangers

Fatsis provides an excellent primer on Merriam-Webster's role in the culture wars, with thorough accounts of the dictionary's approach to the N-word, the F-word, "Covid-19" and "woke"

If the text sometimes feels disjointed, it is, perhaps, because Singh was not writing for publication but to remember

The book under review is a most refreshing departure from this pattern. It discusses how people at large participated in what it correctly calls the assembling of the Constitution