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The Hindu on Books | The Hindu Lit for Life, the relevance of All Quiet on the Western Front and more

’Communities must be the subject of policy, infrastructure to build climate resilience’

Geetha Srimathi

Raj Nair with linguist Ronald E Asher

An Englishman’s fellowship with Malayalam — remembering Ronald E. Asher and Thakazhi

Lit for Life

Lit For Life returns to Chennai’s literary calendar after online stintBook talk on the first day of the festival ranged from how to navigate the personal mindscape to mapping the societal landscape of Indian politics and economics

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The role of RSS schools, the Saraswati Shishu Mandirs and Vidya Bharati, is questionable. Young minds are often instilled with hatred for non-Hindu communities.

Reviews Review of Aditya Mukherjee’s Political Economy of Colonial and Post-Colonial India: The roots of hate politics

BooksBangalore Blues: Vignettes on Bangalore of yore

Books Westland Books to publish official biography of superstar Sridevi

A man crosses a railway track on a foggy winter morning in New Delhi.

Society Satire | How does one get through Delhi winters? By reading classic literature

The machine dispenses prints of short curated poems, fables, facts and puzzles, all at the click of a button

Books In Hyderabad, an ATM that dispenses literature

BooksThe Hindu on Books | Inside JLF 2023 and the Kolkata Literary Meet, ‘Carpet saab’ and more

‘The Indian Constitution may have been a product of a group of elites, but they came from different regions, religions and political inclinations to form a common mind against British imperialism,’ says Rajeev Bhargava.

Interview Only a conversation can help evolve a common ethic: political theorist Rajeev Bhargava

Lyricist-poet Javed Akhtar and actor Shabana Azmi at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2023.

Books Inside Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: authors share quirks, anxieties and more

Life & StyleCall of duty: AAN Comics celebrates the courage of the Indian armed forces through its war books

A laser show at Ram Ki Paidi on the eve of Deepotsav in 2022.

Books Ayodhya, a city of paramount belief, steeped in folklore, mythology and faith

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Parliament Museum and Archives booth at World Book Fair in Delhi. Photo: Twitter/@LokSabhaSectt

Rare images of India's first R-Day celebrations, Constituent Assembly meetings on display at Book Fair

Daily Quiz | On D.H. Lawrence

Silhouette of muslim woman in head scarf with Pakistan flag at blue sunset sky. Concept of freedom

Review of Ways of Being — Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women: A space of their own

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‘When women come into the workforce, they treat their daughters well, they educate them, their daughters then educate their daughters, and that process begins a virtuous circle of education and smaller families and higher productivity growth,’ says Ashoka Mody.

Bring more women into the workforce: Ashoka Mody

Climate activists at a sit-in protest outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., February 23, 2023.

Life in the in-between: the stories in Tomorrow’s Parties offer a glimpse of what living with climate change may look like

Jaideep Unudurti

The rise of ‘climate fiction’ in the West almost designates climate stories to be a new genre, as if environmental degradation were a recent phenomenon.

The age of ‘climate fiction’: how Indian novels and movies have spotlighted stark realities with more nuance than the West

Irfan Habib speaking at the launch of biography of Maulana Azad written by him

Remembering Maulana Azad, a free thinker and nation builder

Aditi Sowmyanarayan

Aditi Sowmyanarayan’s journey from a person on the autism spectrum to a writer

S B Vijaya Mary

‘The diplomat in Nehru had a much bigger ambition: to reorder international society in a way that was underpinned by Indian norms and ideas.’

Nehru was aware of his limitations, says LSE professor Taylor C. Sherman, author of Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths

Varghese K. George

The Elllora caves near Aurangabad.

What’s in a name? The journey from Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar

The Hindu on Books | Revising Roald Dahl classics, talking to Marlon James, an elusive princess and more

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