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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Afterword

The Windfall book review: Diksha Basu’s social satire lacks bite and insight

The Windfall tells the story of a middle class family suddenly coming into money, but it remains stuck in the quagmire of stereotypes.

‘The Golden House’ is Rushdie’s twisted retelling of Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’

Stacked like a neat game of Tetris, 'The Golden House' sticks true to Salman Rushdie's whimsical style of writing.  

How a British Indian soldier viewed India-China relations

Self-published by Thakur Gadadhar Singh in 1902, English translation of ‘Chin Me Terah Mas’ will be released in October

When Mahatma Gandhi justified the stopping of a cricket match

Mahatma Gandhi was once asked if a cricket tournament should be allowed to go on and his answer showed how why he ended up influencing the sport at the time.

‘Evolving with Subramanian Swamy’ repaints him as a wronged man

The reader doesn’t come away with a deep understanding of the man who likes to create a tempest wherever he goes.

‘Looking Back’: Filling in the gaps of Partition

With a mix of fiction and non-fiction, including some brilliant Bangla stories never translated into English, the book tries to present a holistic view of Partition.

Shyam Saran’s book is an insight into the compulsions and motivations in our foreign policy

The book “How India Sees The World” traces the roots of Indian quest for multipolarity in and strategic autonomy to Kautilya and Kamandaki.

‘Letters from Kargil’: A fresh perspective that humanises the faceless soldier

Diksha Dwivedi’s book shares letters from soldiers to their kin during the 1999 Kargil War, sometimes even moments before death.

James Tooley’s book exposes the barbarism of Indian prisons and justice system

James Tooley is a British professor who was put in an Indian prison for four months on false charges because a colleague in his...

ThePrint joins Indian Novels Collective as its digital partner

ThePrint joins the Indian Novel Collective as its digital partner to bring non-English Indian novels to English readers.

On Camera

Game on in Gujarat — Ahmedabad is building India’s new sports economy

The massive success of the IPL is a watershed moment in Indian sports. It proved that sports could be an incredibly profitable commercial venture. The glamour, the glitz, and the spectacle of it didn’t go unnoticed.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.