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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicBook launch

Topic: book launch

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. 

Delhi book event asks to revisit ancient texts—goddesses have been sanitised by modern ideals

The authors of the book, ‘Birthing the Goddess: The Feminine and the Idea of Birth’, discussed the veneration of goddesses in their divine forms versus the often lower regard for women in their human forms.

Shashi Tharoor has a grand love affair with words. He even enjoys Indianisms

Shashi Tharoor shared that his favourite four-letter word is ‘read’ and that people need the capacity to either absorb, deflect, or reflect on the language being thrust on them.

On Camera

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.