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July 23, 2023 03:05 PM IST Quarterlife is that rare novel that dares to speak differently. The zeitgeist it depicts is one of anger and uncertainty but it’s also about hope, ambition, and an impulse to emerge on the right side of history.
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July 23, 2023 11:29 AM IST On July 29, the Tolkienists will celebrate the 69th anniversary of 'The Lord of the Rings'. We look at a lesser-known creative aspect of the famous author.
- July 21, 2023 09:13 PM IST
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 making better decisions, listening to podcasts, attending fun events & much more!
- July 16, 2023 10:13 PM IST
Best known for his 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera's impact and influence on the form of a novel, the place of humour and intellectual labour in our lives is more relevant now than ever before.
- July 16, 2023 05:37 PM IST
Faf Du Plessis' autobiography isn’t just a chronicling of his journey as a cricketer, but is a brutally honest and revealing tale of his insecurities.
- July 16, 2023 12:45 PM IST
On a July day, 69 years ago, author JRR Tolkien reached out to us with 'The Fellowship of the Ring', the first installment of 'The Lord of the Rings' franchise. Seven decades later, a look at more screen adaptations that owe themselves to the LOTR franchise.
- July 14, 2023 09:06 PM IST
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 making better decisions, listening to podcasts, attending fun events & much more!
- July 14, 2023 04:52 PM IST
The Padma Shri and Jnanpith Awardee novelist on his latest non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes', whose foundation was laid with the research for 'Ibis Trilogy', the far-reaching effects of opium trade and humankind's greatest challenges today.
- July 13, 2023 08:23 PM IST
Milan Kundera revelled in shocking, in taking away the breath, and leaving nothing for granted. His prose did not entertain fools.
- July 14, 2023 04:49 PM IST
All of Milan Kundera’s work is a sophisticated but inconclusive probe into what life is about. And death. None of the books consciously carry a blinding insight, though a reader may find some later...
- July 09, 2023 12:54 PM IST
Plus, what climate change activists might find in a re-reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
- July 08, 2023 02:45 PM IST
S Hussain Zaidi's biography on Laxman Lucky Bisht, 'R.A.W. Hitman', released this week. A conversation with Bisht, who was in the Special Forces, was a spy, and accused of twin murders, languished in jail, to quitting the Forces for the Hindi film industry.
- July 08, 2023 01:24 PM IST
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize, GauZ’s Standing Heavy offers a satirical take on immigrants and consumerism in France.
- July 07, 2023 10:05 PM IST
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 making better decisions, listening to podcasts, attending fun events & much more!
- July 02, 2023 07:06 PM IST
The Wind Knows My Name is really two stories in one: the first of these involves the Holocaust, and the second is set amid America's parent-child separation policy for undocumented immigrants under Donald Trump.
- July 02, 2023 11:34 AM IST
In ‘The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece’, Hanks gives even minor characters grand introductions and wraps the proceedings with footnotes.
- July 01, 2023 09:27 AM IST
A carefully considered selection of books on Indian cricket, from the pathbreaking Stray Thoughts on Indian Cricket (1905) by J.M. Framjee Patel to A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport (2003), by Ramachandra Guha.
- June 30, 2023 09:05 PM IST
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 making better decisions, listening to podcasts, attending fun events & much more!
- June 30, 2023 06:26 PM IST
On World Social Media Day, June 30, pick up any of these five books whose plot is centred on or is driven by a bizarre social-media incident on which they’re based.
- June 26, 2023 02:09 PM IST
India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on his latest book Made in India, defining start-ups in a way that would protect them from India's regulatory cholesterol in 2015, the next milestones for India and talking with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the potential of artificial intelligence.
- June 25, 2023 09:29 AM IST
"The world is today full of opportunities and it is impossible to predict what will be best path to those opportunities. You just need to focus on learning what you enjoy and try your hand at as many things you can."
- June 24, 2023 08:32 AM IST
Tania James’s new novel, Loot, is an ingenious tale of efforts to reclaim Tipu Sultan’s famous mechanical tiger.
- June 23, 2023 09:05 PM IST
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 making better decisions, listening to podcasts, attending fun events & much more!
- June 20, 2023 02:14 PM IST
Like Steve Jobs and George Harrison did, Rizwan Virk keeps revisiting Paramahansa Yogananda 'Autobiography'. Virk, whose new book 'Wisdom of a Yogi' is a retelling of 'Autobiography', believes that worldly duties can be part of one's Zen path to clarity.
- June 18, 2023 11:21 AM IST
Ahead of the yoga day on June 21, read some of the best yoga books — from classical texts to contemporary yoga books —in this selection to expand your yoga practice and help you become a better yogi.
