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  • Book review: Kashmir Hill’s 'Your Face Belongs to Us' is an exploration of privacy in the age of advanced facial recognition technology November 19, 2023 03:03 PM IST

    Book review: Kashmir Hill’s 'Your Face Belongs to Us' is an exploration of privacy in the age of advanced facial recognition technology

    While Hill does address many aspects of facial recognition and how Clearview AI is still planning to go ahead with its business plans, there are few instances of what can be done about it.

  • Book review: In 'Kill the Lawyers', slick, sly and sleep-deprived lawyers win the day November 19, 2023 02:38 PM IST

    Book review: In 'Kill the Lawyers', slick, sly and sleep-deprived lawyers win the day

    Shishir Vayttaden conjures the world of Big Law in this caustically witty book, telling stories of Bombay Boardroom and their victories big and small

  • Book review | Dr Rajeev Kurapati’s 'The Book of Body Positivity' is informative and uplifting November 19, 2023 02:02 PM IST

    Book review | Dr Rajeev Kurapati’s 'The Book of Body Positivity' is informative and uplifting

    'The Book of Body Positivity: How We Got It All Wrong and What We Can Do about It' uses an empowering tone, assuring readers that obesity should not be reduced to a personal failure. It is caused by multiple factors.

  • Perumal Murugan wins 2023 JCB Prize for Literature for Fire Bird November 18, 2023 09:46 PM IST

    Perumal Murugan wins 2023 JCB Prize for Literature for Fire Bird

    Tamil writer Perumal Murugan won the JCB Prize for Literature for his book Fire Bird on Saturday. The book has been translated into English from Tamil by Janani Kannan.

  • How Gen Z is saving print books November 18, 2023 09:33 AM IST

    How Gen Z is saving print books

    Studies show that the most digitally literate generation prefers to read books in print rather than on screen.

  • Weekend Guide: What to watch, read, listen & more | Best series, movies to watch November 17, 2023 09:11 PM IST

    Weekend Guide: What to watch, read, listen & more | Best series, movies to watch

    Here's an extensive overview of the most recent offerings on various streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime, along with some book suggestions, podcast recommendations, and enjoyable weekend activities. This weekend, you have many choices to explore, including new releases on Netflix and Amazon Prime, engaging podcast content, exciting events to attend, and much more!

  • We're in stage 2 of the current bull market: Stellar Wealth Partners India Fund's Gautam Baid November 18, 2023 09:39 AM IST

    We're in stage 2 of the current bull market: Stellar Wealth Partners India Fund's Gautam Baid

    How to survive a bear market, and common mistakes investors make when the going is good.

  • Postcards from the Grave, then and now November 11, 2023 10:19 AM IST

    Postcards from the Grave, then and now

    A memoir of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War and ethnic cleansing of 1992-95, published almost two decades ago, offers a glimpse into the hellish circumstances of those in Gaza today.

  • Kozhikode: How Malabar’s creative hub became the world’s City of Literature November 10, 2023 05:52 PM IST

    Kozhikode: How Malabar’s creative hub became the world’s City of Literature

    Just named City of Literature by UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Kerala's coastal city of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut) packs centuries of knowledge, cultural expressions and diversity.

  • ‘Dom women are not expected to be enterprising or entrepreneurial’: Radhika Iyengar on writing ‘Fire on the Ganges’ November 10, 2023 03:38 PM IST

    ‘Dom women are not expected to be enterprising or entrepreneurial’: Radhika Iyengar on writing ‘Fire on the Ganges’

    In her non-fiction book on Varanasi's corpse-burner Dom community, 'Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras', debutante author-journalist Radhika Iyengar demonstrates how caste-heteropatriarchy controls who gets to have a choice in the life they lead.

  • ‘Courting India’ | British Academy Book Prize-winning author Nandini Das ‘wanted to give marginalised voices their due attention’ November 10, 2023 02:08 PM IST

    ‘Courting India’ | British Academy Book Prize-winning author Nandini Das ‘wanted to give marginalised voices their due attention’

    Courting India is an intriguing non-fiction account of the English entry into the subcontinent, taking cues from the first English ambassador in India, Thomas Roe.

  • My Family and Other Globalizers | To be a reader is to never have solitude turn into loneliness November 13, 2023 01:42 PM IST

    My Family and Other Globalizers | To be a reader is to never have solitude turn into loneliness

    Screens are mental overload and fracture our brains into a prismatic way of seeing. Reading books provides an inimitable stillness of mind and inculcates a habit the young takes into their adulthood.

  • Ghouls of November: Indian and foreign ghost stories to make us jump out of our skins November 13, 2023 01:45 PM IST

    Ghouls of November: Indian and foreign ghost stories to make us jump out of our skins

    Films and books transport us to worlds where goblins and wraiths roam free. Urban legends and myths would have us believe that anything can happen anytime!

  • Weekend Guide: What To Watch, Read, Listen & More! | Best Series, Movies To Watch November 03, 2023 10:04 PM IST

    Weekend Guide: What To Watch, Read, Listen & More! | Best Series, Movies To Watch

    A detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts, and exciting activities to indulge in over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix & Amazon prime releases, a book on women's athletics, the Palestine war, listen to podcasts on understanding the Indian cities, attend fun events & much more! This weekend, you have many choices to explore.

  • Durjoy Datta: ‘I write between screaming, dirty diapers and paint being thrown across the room’ November 03, 2023 12:22 PM IST

    Durjoy Datta: ‘I write between screaming, dirty diapers and paint being thrown across the room’

    The bestselling author and screenwriter analyses his success, joys of fatherhood, his writing process and how he deals with self-doubt.

  • Why Matthew Perry’s awkward Chandler Bing was relatable November 01, 2023 08:05 AM IST

    Why Matthew Perry’s awkward Chandler Bing was relatable

    That friend, from that '90s show, we had and lost. His memoir, published last year, and his American sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S will be pages from his life, those suffering will keep turning to.

  • 7 writers of ghost stories in India to read to ring in Halloween 2023 October 29, 2023 04:28 PM IST

    7 writers of ghost stories in India to read to ring in Halloween 2023

    On Halloween, here’s a look at some of the best writers of ghost stories from India.

  • Weekend Guide: What To Watch, Read, Listen & More! | Best Series, Movies To Watch October 27, 2023 10:07 PM IST

    Weekend Guide: What To Watch, Read, Listen & More! | Best Series, Movies To Watch

    A detailed guide to all the latest OTT releases, book recommendations, podcasts and exciting activities to indulge in over the weekend! This weekend, you can pick from a host of Netflix & Amazon Prime releases, a book on women’s athletics, the Palestine war, listen to podcasts on understanding the Indian cities, attend fun events & much more! This weekend, you have many choices to explore

  • Short stories of diaspora dilemma: Nishanth Injam’s The Best Possible Experience is a collection of extracts on the emotional price of relocation October 22, 2023 04:16 PM IST

    Short stories of diaspora dilemma: Nishanth Injam’s The Best Possible Experience is a collection of extracts on the emotional price of relocation

    According to government data, an average of 618 Indians renounces their citizenship every day. Injam’s stories are a moving reminder that their choice has difficult personal consequences. Given the statistics, immigrant literature will grow. This well-crafted collection stands out in its candidness and maturity.

  • Book review | Mad Sisters of Esi: Tashan Mehta’s fantasy novel on the world of whales is wryly funny October 22, 2023 05:15 PM IST

    Book review | Mad Sisters of Esi: Tashan Mehta’s fantasy novel on the world of whales is wryly funny

    In terms of methodology, Mehta’s second novel has much in common with the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, while its fragmentary nature and adroit usage of scientific language recalls science fiction masters Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.

  • Book review: Mike Brearley's Turning Over the Pebbles | 'Cricket has given me a frame for thinking about my life' October 22, 2023 11:12 AM IST

    Book review: Mike Brearley's Turning Over the Pebbles | 'Cricket has given me a frame for thinking about my life'

    Mike Brearley's latest book 'Turning Over the Pebbles' is a thoughtful meditation on life, sport, philosophy, psychology, religion, literature, music, death—in fact the whole human condition.

  • JCB Prize for Literature 2023 Shortlist of 5 eclectic mix announced October 21, 2023 10:28 AM IST

    JCB Prize for Literature 2023 Shortlist of 5 eclectic mix announced

    The Shortlist features three translations, a debut novel and debut translation. Each shortlisted author will get Rs 1 lakh and an additional Rs 50,000 for the translator if the finalist book happens to be a translated work. The winner will be announced on November 18 and shall take away Rs 25 lakh.

  • The Arabian Nights meets the Third Crusade October 21, 2023 08:48 AM IST

    The Arabian Nights meets the Third Crusade

    Jamila Ahmed’s 'Every Rising Sun' is an inventive debut novel that combines the stories of the 'Arabian Nights' with episodes from medieval history.

  • Stanford Business School Lecturer Matt Abrahams: You have to prepare to be spontaneous October 20, 2023 10:05 AM IST

    Stanford Business School Lecturer Matt Abrahams: You have to prepare to be spontaneous

    Matt Abrahams, organizational behaviour lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, on the problem with aiming for perfection and other hurdles to effective communication, and how to manage or overcome them in spontaneous conversations.

  • How the love for murder mysteries created the Indian historical crime novel October 15, 2023 08:54 PM IST

    How the love for murder mysteries created the Indian historical crime novel

    In these holidays, take your own trip into India's past with these charming historic whodunits.