Book Extract | Colombo: Port of Call | Colonial History of Sri Lanka
Colombo: Port of Call is an attempt to look at Colombo and Sri Lanka through the stories of well-known international figures who visited the port
Book Extract | The Worlds of Aparna: Suman Ghosh in Conversation with Aparna Sen
Over her distinguished six-decade journey in cinema, internationally renowned Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actress, Aparna Sen has directed seventeen films and holds the unique distinction of being the only woman to win the National Award for Best Director twice.
Book Extract | The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment by Swapna Kona Nayudu
Does the world need to read more (mostly bad) poems (mostly on social media)? The Poetry Pharmacy's William Sieghart weighs in
Every year, Unesco observes World Poetry Day in March (on March 21). We asked ex-entrepreneur William Sieghart, who anthologized poems by writers from Rumi to JRR Tolkien in 'The Poetry Pharmacy', how to read poetry without getting overwhelmed or drowning in cringe. Exclusive interview.
Book Extract | The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 47 Incredible Organisms by Elsa Panciroli
Book Extract | A Flag to Live and Die For: A Short History of India’s Tricolour by Navtej Sarna
Book review: In ‘Breakpoint’, Saurabh Mukherjea writes what the Indian middle class has been thinking for some time now
In 'Breakpoint', Saurabh Mukherjea et al define the Indian middle class as those who report earnings between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 1 crore in their tax returns, and argue that this set of the Indian population is at a crossroads today.
Book Extract | Daktarin Jamini Sen: The Life of One of British India's First Women Doctors by Deepta Roy Chakraverti
The Royal Faculty had started to feel itself on tenuous ground when in 1899, a case involving the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons arose.
Book Extract | Robin Hood of Kathiawar and Other Extraordinary Stories from India's Freedom Movement,
Robin Hood of Kathiawar and Other Extraordinary Stories from India’s Freedom Movement offers a vivid, unexpected view of India’s independence struggle.
Book Extract | Food Intelligence: A comprehensive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating
In Food Intelligence, award-winning health journalist, Julia Belluz, and internationally renowned nutrition and metabolism scientist, Kevin Hall, cut through the myths about nutrition to deliver the definitive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.
Book Extract | Unpacking Participatory Democracy: From Theory to Practice
Unpacking Participatory Democracy offers some ‘inclusive’ approaches to the ideas of development and democracy.
Book Extract | Never Say Die: My Life in Business and Entrepreneurship
Shripal Morakhia is a serial entrepreneur. He went to the US in 1979 on sponsorship by the New York Stock Exchange and after his MBA worked as the Executive Assistant to the President of NYSE for a year.
Book Extract | We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins
Academy Award–winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theatre career, difficult childhood, and path to sobriety in his honest, moving, and long-awaited memoir.
Book Extract | Cannabis: A Global History (Edible Series) by Bradley J. Borougerdi
As mentioned earlier, the word ‘bhang’ has multiple meanings in reference to cannabis. Cognates of it from multiple languages have been used generically to describe other types of drugs, but it also refers to a drinkable preparation that includes ground-up leaves and plant matter as an ingredient.
Book Extract | Femonomics: The Life-Changing, Data-Driven Guide to Making Better Choices at Home and at Work
In Femonomics, Wharton professor and economist Dr. Corinne Low unpacks the hidden factors that influence women’s decision-making, and how the unintended consequences of these choices alter the course of our lives
Book Extract | Song of the Clay Pot - My Journey With the Ghatam
In this fascinating book, Sumana Chandrashekar describes her love affair with the ghatam from the time when it called to her in her dreams
‘Hate is a powerful tool of contemporary politics’
Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee has produced a new work, ‘Absolute Jafar’, a cross-border romance that disintegrates in a faraway land. In an interview to Moneycontrol, he details his process.
Book Extract | Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train
From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey - this time celebrating the peculiar magic and mayhem of the night train.
Book Extract | The Girl from Fergana: Secrets of My Mother’s Chinese Tea Chest
In The Girl from Fergana: Secrets of My Mother’s Chinese Tea Chest, Jonathan Gil Harris opens the lid of his mother’s treasured tea chest to uncover a life shaped by displacemen
Book Extract | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The story of cancer is a human one-a tale of chance discoveries, seized opportunities and human endurance
How civilizational thinking is still hurting the world more than 200 years after Europeans introduced it to the world
Cambridge University Professor Josephine Quinn on why the 'West' was a hard-won idea, and why the idea of great civilizations of the world is so attractive and so harmful to the practice of history today.
Book Extract | Writing From The Solitary: An Anthology Of Loneliness
Writing from the Solitary: An Anthology on Loneliness, edited by Priyanka Sarkar and Semeen Ali, collates twenty-three voices pondering over the feeling of loneliness
Book Extract | Surviving Climate Anxiety: Coping, Healing and Thriving on a Changing Planet
This book could not be a more timely book given that on Thursday, 12 February 2026, President Trump revoked the landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
Book Extract | Digitalisation in India: The Class Agenda
The advent of computers made machines more sophisticated (computer-controlled, programmable).
Inside the Minds of Giant Traders: What really separates Winners from Losers
The "magic formula" in trading isn't hidden in indicators — It's in mastering your emotions and managing risk
