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
Book Extract | The Art of Being Fabulous: 10 Rules for a Beautiful Mind & Life by Shalini Passi
In her memoir The Art of Being Fabulous Shalini Passi speaks of the celebration of living beautifully and with dignity
Book Extract | Honey: A Global History (The Edible Series) by Lucy M. Long
Honey was similarly associated with the gods in ancient India. In the 1,028 sacred hymns of the Vedic scriptures dating from 1500 BC, many frequently mention honey (madhu in Sanskrit) and claim that it came from the clouds.
Book Extract | The Bengal Reader: The Finest Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Plays from the Bengali
The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, it is edited and translated by prolific translator, Arunava Sinha. I
Book Extract | Badshah, Bandar, Bazaar: Commerce and Everyday Life in the Mughal World
Badshah, Bandar, Bazaar turns conventional wisdom on its head to examine what has long been taken for granted
Book Extract | Shared Bonds, Strategic Interests: India Nepal Relations In A Turbulent World
Shared Bonds, Strategic Interests: India-Nepal Relations in a Turbulent World helps guide those seeking to understand the challenges and opportunities arising from the close, yet complex and occasionally fraught relationship between India and Nepal.
Book Extract | If All The World Were Paper: A History Of Writing In Hindi
Combining close readings of literary and scholarly works with the study of hundreds of handwritten books from the precolonial era, If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world today.
Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt: 'You are in a historical situation. The writer is in a historical situation. And these worlds are meeting'
New Historicism theorist Stephen Greenblatt says he wrote his first few books for academics, and then began looking for ways to write for a wider audience, to communicate ideas in a way that produces pleasure and the desire to continue reading. Exclusive interview.
Book Extract | The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy
For a start, India and the US have a shared interest in limiting the power and influence of China.
Book Extract | Dance of Freedom: A Short History of Bharata Natyam by Leela Samson
From the very start, in all Indian dance forms, especially the classical, seemingly micro-positions of the fingers called hasta mudras co-ordinate with positions of the head, accompanied by neck and eye movements—which together like a symphony aid and abet the macro movements of the body as a whole.
2006 Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai: Artists are thieves, they are magpies. They can be ruthless...
Kiran Desai on the loneliness of elderly single women in India in the 1990s and 2000s, her Booker Prize shortlisted novel 'The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia' and visiting the bank locker to try on family heirlooms that fit just right.
Ever read Sanskrit ghazals and Sanskrit haiku? Prof Radhavallabh Tripathi explains how modern Sanskrit literature is both vibrant and inclusive
Jaipur Literature Festival 2026: Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi, Sanskrit scholar and ex-Vice Chancellor of the premier Central Sanskrit University in Delhi, explains how modern Sanskrit literature is open and evolving — just not as a language for computers or artificial intelligence.
Book Extract - Mirrors Of Empire: Courtiers, Diplomats, and Intellectuals in Mughal India
Memoirs by the Mughal royalty – specially Babur and Jahangir – are well known. Less known and analysed are the writings of diverse others, from the poet-laureate Faizi to the lowly envoy Asad Beg, to characters like Mirza Nathan and Abdul Latif who lived dangerously on the Bengal frontier.
Book Extract - In the Beginning there was Bombay Duck: A Food History of Mumbai
Bombay Duck is a rigorously researched, delightfully anecdotal history of food in Bombay/Mumbai that is as colourful and cosmopolitan as the city itself.
Book Extract - The Nine Lives of Annie Besant: The Astonishing Story of a Victorian Rebel
Annie Besant’s life was extraordinary and full of contradictions: from politics to mysticism, from the London suburbs to the heart of India’s freedom struggle, from Christian piety to Theosophical priestesshood
Book Extract | LeanSpark: Frugal by Design, Global in Impact
JLF became a place where anyone could listen to the world’s greatest writers without VIP barriers.
BOOK REVIEW | A first-person account of a corporate miracle
Successful turnarounds of companies living on memories of glory days are infrequent. CG Power is one of the rare firms that bucked the trend. A candid account by the architect of the revival holds many lessons
Book Extract | Mafia Queens of India by S. Hussain Zaidi and Velly Thevar
It was the late 1970s. The midday heat pressed on Kurauli village, Uttar Pradesh, located nine kilometers away from Tikri.
Book Extract | From Dynasties to Democracy: Politics, Caste and Power Struggles in Rajasthan by Deep Mukherjee & Tabeenah Anjum
The horrific scenes in Hindaun in the aftermath of the 2 April protests were proof of how Dalit leaders – whether they were from the Congress or the BJP – would not be spared in case of conflict.
‘It’s the historian’s job to be imaginative: to imagine other worlds, other kinds of lives, other ways of being’
The Mughal story, as Jagjeet Lally tells it, is less about crowns and conquest than about the quieter authority of documents and the steady shimmer of silver.
Book Extract | The Call of Music: 8 Stories of Hindustani Musicians by Priya Purushothaman
The very early days of Suhail’s life were divided between his hometown of Kashipur, and Delhi, where Sabri Khan Saheb (Suhail’s maternal grandfather) lived.
Book Extract | The Social Life of Indian Trains by Amitava Kumar
The history of Indian trains is older than India itself. For over 150 years, the train has been part of the lives of most Indians
Book Extract | Troubleshooter: The Untold Encounters of IPS Officer K. P. Raghuvanshi
The officer understood who the remark was directed towards and looked towards the floor, ashamed.
Book Extract: The Shortest History of AI
Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence.
Book Extract | Scamlands: Inside the Asian empire of fraud that preys on the world
Snigdha Poonam’s Scamlands takes you to parts of the world where a scamster is born every minute.
