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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicBook trends

Topic: Book trends

Faqir Chand & Bahrisons aren’t just bookshops now. They’re selfie spots, meet-cute hubs

Khan Market’s last two legacy bookstores are leveraging nostalgia and a strong social media presence to attract customers and make books trendy.

New book explores Asian identity, provides history of the 20th century from an Asian perspective

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Asia after Europe' by Prof. Sugata Bose will be released on 5 February on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Climate fiction is growing, but it’s waiting for a Chetan Bhagat

As the climate crisis unfolds fiction might just be our final place of residence. 

Is the novel dying in India? Publishers chasing more and more non-fiction

There’s new enthusiasm among readers and publishers for fact, data, narrative, theory, and experiences. Fiction's time under the Indian sun might just be over.

Mini JLFs sprouting across India. Lit fest boom in Nagpur, Ranchi, Kanpur, Indore, Kokrajhar

There are at least 65 lit fests in India now, a growing testament to decades of neglect of smaller cities, regional languages, and appetite for cultural events.

Savarkar broke monopoly of Nehru-Gandhi history books. Now there’s new appetite, wishlist

Hemchandra Vikramaditya, Maharana Pratap and Khudiram Bose are some of the new biographies in English and Hindi that reflect the changed political mood in India.

On Camera

After losing no.2 carmaker spot, Hyundai is betting big on the new Venue

Indian car buyers are just as tech-obsessed as their Chinese counterparts, and that obsession has taken precedence over handling and performance.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.