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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicBook launch

Topic: book launch

Amol Palekar wants the world to see his ‘gradations of grey’—memoir turns lens inward

At the launch of his memoir Viewfinder in Mumbai, actor and filmmaker Amol Palekar spoke about breaking typecasts and ‘doing all the things I wanted on my terms’.

India’s environmentalism didn’t start with Chipko

The book might have begun as a conversation with Western perceptions of when and where environmentalism originated, but Guha asserted that he isn’t xenophobic.

New book explores the origins of India’s Environmentalism beyond affluence

Published by HarperCollins India, 'Speaking with Nature’ will be released on 16 October on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Mir Taqi Mir wasn’t a poet of longing like Ghalib. He lived in the resistance space

Translator Ranjit Hoskote shared translations of Mir’s verses on social media, as part of ‘Project Mir’, which later took the shape of his recent book, ‘The Homeland’s an Ocean’.

Gandhi ‘bamboozled’ Ambedkar into signing the Poona Pact—and later regretted it

‘Thank you, Gandhi’ looks at epochal moments of modern India and how they were framed by government response and a hostile political ecosystem.

New book compiles autobiographical tales of life and career choices

Published by Westland Books, The Lion, the Admiral and a Cat Called B. Uma Vijaylakshmi will be released on 9 October on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Oral traditions are fading—Nirmala Sitharaman gives an important reminder at book launch

The authors of ‘Life, Death and Ashtavakra Gita', Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta, shared their struggles, loss, and the quest to understand death through the Ashtavakra Gita.

New book presents Hindu epic Ramayana as a dialogue between Valmiki and Narad

Published by HarperCollins India, Ramayanam: Vol I' by Dushyanth Sridhar will be released on Wednesday, 25 September on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Sushil Kumar Shinde never played Dalit card, said Mallikarjun Kharge at book launch

The book launch of ‘Five Decades in Politics’ was more of a Congress media event, where the LoP in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge spoke almost twice as much as Sushil Kumar Shinde.

New book explores gender stereotypes, lends empathetic hand to women struggling to break free

Published by Rupa Publications, 'Letters to Daughters of Tomorrow' will be released on 11 September on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books. 

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.