Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet win Womens Prize 2026
Evans has won the fiction prize for her epistolary novel The Correspondent, while Canadian journalist Doucet takes home the nonfiction award for her book on Afghanistan
The human cost of H1-B dream | Review of Tanul Thakurs Wild Wild East
Thakurs debut book balances broad socio-political analysis with the pleasures of old-school narrative journalism
Review | Reading debut novel Gloria Dont Speak through the lens of the feminist snap
In her Womens Prize-longlisted work, author Lucy Apps delivers an affecting portrait of female agency and vulnerability
Interview | Lily King: I wanted to write about a big first love and a big first heartbreak
Heart the Lover, shortlisted for the 2026 Womens Prize, is billed both as a prequel and sequel to Kings previous novel,Writers & Lovers
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis and Panahi: Why Iranian cinema sees history through a childs eyes
In the works of Marjane Satrapi, Jafar Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, children are more than protagonists. They are the eyes through which Iran sees itself. OR From lost notebooks and goldfish to revolutions and exile, Iranian artists have repeatedly trusted children to tell their nations most complicated stories.
Om Birla releases 89 'historical' volumes of Central Legislative Assembly proceedings
Om Birla remarked that this historical document will inspire all individuals who believe in democracy, as well as public representatives throughout the country
Review | Yann Martels Son of Nobody reimagines marriage through the Trojan War myth
Martels ambitious conceit doesnt fully deliver though, as the parallels between war and domesticity often feel contrived
Book on Indias first Olympic gold released
Taiwan Travelogue wins International Booker Prize 2026
The novel, originally written in the Mandarin Chinese,succeeds as both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel
Review | Rene Karabashs She Who Remains reimagines gender and freedom through Albanias sworn virgins
The International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is a haunting meditation on identity, violence and the cost of freedom
Review of The Kerala Club, edited by K.M. Chandrasekhar, T.P. Sreenivasan
In a collection of essays, civil servants write on governance in a State known for sharp contrasts
Gulbadan Begum was Bbars daughter; she was asked by her nephew Akbar to write her memories of the reigns early years
R. Parthasarathys best-known work is the 1977 book-length poem Rough Passage
Daily Quiz: on John Steinbeck who has been called a giant of American letter
American writer John Steinbeckwas born on February 27, 1902. Here is a quiz on the author who has been called a giant of American letters
Noted Bengali author Sankar dies at 93
Mani Sankar Mukhopadhays novel Chowringee captured the complexities of urban life and society
