Reading

With initial public offerings (IPOs) drawing strong investor interest, Deven Choksey, MD, DRChoksey FinServ outlined a framework for retail investors to assess new issues, advising them to look beyond

Fiction offers more than entertainment, opening windows to new worlds, building knowledge and keeping the reading habit alive amid digital distractions

We can often read scrambled words, but not because the order of letters doesn't matter. It's because our brains are remarkably good at making sense of imperfect information

Rohit Chawla and Kishore Singh's book, Portrait of An Artist, rises to the occasion, choosing to focus on what happens in the studios where artists create

A sharp rally, a sudden dip, and a fragile ceasefire: markets are reacting fast to West Asia tensions. But is the worst really behind us? Or are investors getting ahead of reality?

New research suggests that lifelong mentally stimulating activities, including reading, writing and learning languages, may lower Alzheimer's risk and delay symptoms by several years

Mr Cable eschews the general narrative of China and India being different, highlighting instead their similarities

We Are Eating the Earth is research-heavy and Mr Grunwald has spoken to many people in the course of the book

The book is interested in not just the stories of the women who amassed immense wealth and wielded great power, but those whose quiet labour laid the building blocks of history

Sidharth Bhatia's excellently researched work throws light on several less-known aspects of Mumbai and brings to life the stories of numerous humble residents who are rarely heard or taken note of

Camus's notebooks, which run from 1935 to 1959 contain almost nothing about his friends or his family, his experiences during wartime or much about his personal life

Writers may be more likely to break than other readers because there's ego and other occupational hazards involved

The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax

Tech giant Google has introduced a new 'Reading practice' feature for its Play Books Android application and Kids Space, which will help new readers independently improve their vocabulary

We appear to be natural at reading, but is that true?

To understand how the virus affected people's everyday lives, the ABS ran a fortnightly survey with the same group of 1,000 people from April 1 to July 10. Here are some of the key findings

ADX has a strong significance from a long-term perspective. However, recent years have seen traders using it for a short-to-medium term perspective.

Police blocked off several roads, and photos showed two air ambulances nearby

Who wants to read about disease, or be reminded of one's mortality, during a pandemic?

In such dire times, the incessant social media discourse and the flurry of think pieces on a New Yorker short story gives me immense hope for the world