books and publishing

Frontline Schools in Tirupur celebrate 25th anniversary with a record-breaking feat 

Flocks of birds swirl in the air silhouetted against an orange sunset before descending on their cho...

Coimbatore City Commissioner’s new book is an ode to Nature, childhood and more

“Look up at the sky, and you will be amazed by the imagery emerging from there,” says V Balakrishnan...

Life at the limit: review of Luca Del Monte’s Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon

In the mid-1990s, when I was reporting Formula One races in Europe, the most impressive sight in the...

Room for optimism: review of Akshay Rathi’s Climate Capitalism

Modern economic growth and rising demand for goods at relatively lower prices have led to inevitable...

J.K. Rowling criticises colleagues for publicly denouncing her transgender rights views while privately seeking friendship

In a recent revelation, J.K. Rowling, the renowned author of the beloved Harry Potter series, has la...

Review of Deceptive Patterns by Harry Brignull | A friendly though unevenly paced guide for the age of digital trickery

Thanks to a great travel deal, you plan a fun-filled holiday for your family. You book affordable pl...

Albania’s world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88

Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare, whose irreverent works from inside communist Albania earne...

Should you buy an Amazon Kindle e-reader or are you better off with an Apple iPad? 

If you have managed to cross the great paper-digital divide and can enjoy e-books, then buying Amazo...

In the digital age, here’s how bookshops in Delhi are reinventing themselves

At the launch of author Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s latest novel Chronicle of a Hour and a Half at Th...

Turkish duo pen bestselling novel though prison bars

A jailed Kurdish leader and a Turkish writer on the other side of the bars have used their penpal ex...

Internet Archive’s book sharing violated copyright law, upholds appeals court

An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright l...

What the Internet Archive case in the U.S. means for digital book-lending

Internet Archive (IA) is a familiar name for many, particularly researchers from the Global South wh...