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Book Extract | Song of India: A Study of the National Anthem by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Many of the ideas presented above from Tagore’s writings around 1910 and 1912, exactly the period when he composed ‘Jana Gana Mana’, are reflected in the song.
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Bestselling author Samantha Shannon: 'Twitter drove me to a dark place over the decade I was there'
Oxford University graduate Samantha Shannon on the latest book in her bestselling fantasy series 'The Bone Season', using social media, and the 'author preferred' version of her dystopian and fantasy novels.
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Book Extract | The Piano Player of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player — how it, along with him, survived
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Book Extract | How to Live - A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and The Enchiridion by Epictetus
Epictetus, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, emerged as a prominent figure in Stoic philosophy during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
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The Art of War and Peace: The Changing Face of 21st Century Warfare by Dr David Kilcullen and Dr Greg Mills
This is thus a book about human dynamics and tactical action as much as the need for strategy.
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Book Extract | Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness by Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield
Since the late 1980s multibeam sonar has been providing highly detailed images of a large area of the sea floor.
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‘Hindustani music is not Brahmanical like Carnatic, which became so after 18th century’: Navayana publisher S Anand
Anti-caste publisher S Anand on co-founding Navayana, re-printing the memoir of Adivasi leader-Olympic hockey player-Constituent Assembly member Jaipal Singh Munda, rejecting Carnatic music for Kabir songs & seeing Kabir through the prism of BR Ambedkar in his latest book 'The Notbook of Kabir'.
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Book Extract | The Kargil War Surgeon's Testimony by Arup Ratan Basu
There were booming sounds and then a clattering like a hailstorm on the roofs of the mess and the hospital ward.
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Book Extract | Believer's Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu Right's Path to Power by Abhishek Choudhary
Mapping the evolution of the Sangh Parivar, this book reveals a deeper pattern in Vajpayee’s character: his reflexive loyalty to his ideological family in moments of crisis
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Rujuta Diwekar: 'Home-cooking is the OG form of self-love and self-care'
Nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar on her first book of recipes, the concept of Mitahara, mainstreaming forgotten foods, what to eat during monsoons, and her recipe for making goda masala at home.
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Book Extract | We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
The first memoir by an indigenous tribal leader in the Amazon, who fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe's territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.
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Book Extract | The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
Proteins also play a critical role in infectious diseases. Pathogens like bacteria and viruses often produce proteins to help them evade the immune system or to hijack host cells for their own reproduction
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Book Extract – The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
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Book Extract: The Hindi Heartland
The book excerpt that has been published here is taken from the opening pages of the chapter on economy.
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Book Extract | The New Rules of Investing: Essential Wealth Strategies for Turbulent Times by Mark Haefele and Richard C. Morais
By the end of this book, you will have digested real-world client studies drawn from all over the world and enough investment theory to emulate the practices we have demonstrated to work.
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Book Extract | Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback
The excerpt that has been published has been taken from the opening pages. But this book is truly worth reading.
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How readers—and writers—are finding their book tribe
Book clubs, communities and events have persisted in the 21st century—albeit in different formats, and sometimes with the help of richer media that makes it possible to connect more deeply and quickly with favourite authors and fellow fans.
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Book Extract | Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World by Lubaba Al-Azami
The threat to lives and livelihoods, combined with the allure of merchant vessels in the east bearing treasures of gold, silver, jewels, textiles and spices, made transferring an attractive proposition
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Book Extract | Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo
The industrialization of presses, the dangers inherent in the work, and the sense that the wages offered by press managers were insufficient for the cost of urban living meant that by the early twentieth century, printing was a trade known for management-labor conflicts and strikes
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Yale history professor David C Engerman: Development economics was a Global South project
Professor David C Engerman on interviewing and writing about 6 famous South Asians who gave the world development economics.
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Book Extract | Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple
Most explanations of the Naga revolt view Phizo’s movement through the lens of secessionism but it is perhaps more useful to see it as an attempt to undo the partition of India and Burma and reunite the Nagas on both sides
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Book Extract | The Nehru-Era Economic History and Thought by by Arvind Panagariya
Removal of poverty as the objective and growth and redistribution as joint instruments to achieve it remained integral to Nehru’s thinking throughout his tenure as prime minister.
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Vikram Sampath on how to train AI to translate idioms like 'Bhains ke aage been bajana'
NAAV.AI cofounder and author of 10 books Vikram Sampath on training agentic AI for translating books into Indian regional languages, and what the speed and ease of translating with AI could mean for content across Indian languages.
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Book Extract| The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle by Rana Preet Gill
Owing to lapses in planning and the presence of informers in their midst, the plan ultimately failed and the British came down very heavily on the conspirators.
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Book Extract | Mumbai's Most Wanted by Madhukar Zende and Jai Vijaya Madhukar Zende
If the driver got to Sobhraj and alerted him, there would be hell to pay. We could not preclude the possibility of Sobhraj and Hall pulling out a weapon, or even taking a hostage or two from the wedding party
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Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham on going 'All In': IIT-IIM and big-city background not crucial to start-up success
Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham on riding the AI wave, his 2025 memoir All In, how he prefers sharing anecdotes to giving 'gyan', and his love of chess, cars and watches.
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Book Extract: Apple in China
As Trump wages a tariff war with China, seeking to boost domestic electronics manufacturing, this book offers an unparalleled insight into why his strategy is embarrassingly naïve.
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Book Extract - A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory
Until forty years ago, we couldn't forecast weather conditions beyond ten days. Renowned climate scientist Dr. Jagadish Shukla is largely to thank for modern weather forecasting.
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Book Extract | Our Future is Biotech by Andrew Craig
Biotech means that we can all live better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives.
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Book Extract | Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp
Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing.
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Forbes India celebrates 16 years with landmark anniversary issue, exploring the possibilities disruption brings
A striking new cover design, a departure from past visual identities, marks this momentous issue.
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Book Extract | Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child's Life
In September 2017, a photo of Max in his hospital bed dominated the front page of The Mirror once more.
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Book Extract | Rethinking Work: Seismic Changes in the Where, When, and Why by Rishad Tobaccowala
Because of AI and deepfake technology, it is possible to put words in the mouth of an individual or create a video that integrates the likeness of that person (without their permission)
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Isabel Allende: 'The theme of refugees is in the air, in the news, in the collective consciousness. It cannot be ignored'
Novelist Isabel Allende on being 'eternally displaced', and why 1891 is a big year in her latest novel 'My Name is Emilia del Valle'.
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Book Extract – CDS General Anil Chauhan's 'Ready, Relevant and Resurgent: A Blueprint for the transformation of India’s Military'
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The Goat Life author Benyamin: Jesus turning water into wine 'was a social transformation event'
Benyamin on why he thinks 'The Second Book of Prophets' is unlike anything he's written before, and translator Ministhy S. on why she had to read other books before taking up the Malayalam to English translation of Benyamin's latest novel.
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Book Extract | AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence by Gary Rivlin
Artificial Intelligence has been 'just around the corner' for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential
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Book Extract | Our Living Constitution: A Concise Introduction & Commentary by Shashi Tharoor
India is a country held together, in the words of Nehru, ‘by strong but invisible threads...a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.’
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Chetan Bhagat of Bengali literature Smaranjit Chakraborty: 'Sense of being successful is the death knell for any writer'
Winner of the million-rupee Ananda Purashkar 2025, Bengali author Smaranjit Chakraborty on the secret of his success, the storyline of 'Shunyo Pother Mallika', translating Jhumpa Lahiri, and his desire to 'tell stories that convey the message of love and harmony'.
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Book Extract | Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper by Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan
By the late 1800s and first two decades of the twentieth century, several periodicals and newspapers came out in undivided India
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Book Extract |The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices by Thich Naht Hahn
We can practice loving speech in our writing as well. Many people now communicate by email and text messaging more than they do in person or on the telephone.
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Book Extract | Test Cricket: A Biography: The Story of Test Cricket 1877 to Today by Tim Wigmore
In India, Tendulkar became ubiquitous in a manner that not even Gavaskar had rivalled. Only when driving around Mumbai in the early hours could he roam freely.
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Book Extract | A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Memory begins with Ba Má, their images like photographs, their story like a movie, the kind found in the black box of a VHS tape, in an era when I have long ago gotten rid of my VCR.
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Why NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wants to build a dishwashing robot, and how he hopes to do it without breaking any plates
'Thinking Machine' author Stephen Witt on how NVIDIA's graphics processing units came to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence today, and what makes cofounder Jensen Huang tick.
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Lt Gen (Retd) Y.K. Joshi on the Kargil War, his memoir and safeguards for war in the age of social media
Lt Gen (Retd) Yogesh Kumar Joshi—who retired as Northern Army Commander in 2022—on his memoir, key lessons he learnt over his 40 years of service from 1982–2022, the Kargil War and India's relations with neighbouring countries.
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Book Review | The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence
According to Ray, the British retreat in the INA case set off the process in London of granting complete independence to India which materialized in record time, so to say.
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Book Extract | Tea : A Global History (Edible Series) by Helen Saberi
India exports tea to more than 25 countries throughout the world. Russia, Iran, UAE, USA, the UK, Germany, and China are some of the major importers of tea from India.
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Book Extract | Speaking with Nature: The Origin of Indian Environmentalism by Ramachandra Guha
By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness.
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Strategic autonomy would have been a subset of Indian non-alignment, says 'Nehru Years' author
What is the legacy of Indian Non-Alignment, is strategic autonomy non-alignment by another name, and how Indian Non-Alignment was non-imperialist in its DNA—'The Nehru Years' author, Swapna Kona Nayudu, explains.
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The Undying Light : A Personal History of Independent India by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
This remarkable memoir, and history of India after Independence, by one of India’s most distinguished public intellectuals, begins with his memories of the assassination of his paternal grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi.
