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Friday, March 27, 2026
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India’s teens are reading Young Adult fiction. They don’t want myth & morality lessons

Young adult fiction is filling a long-ignored reading gap for teenagers navigating identity, relationships and growing up. The copies are rising and so are book sales.

Comic books were precious but never considered respectable, says graphic designer Orijit Sen

The session, titled 'Comics as Witness', brought together comic creators, publishers, and distributors to discuss comic book readers in India.

2nd edition of Nainital Literature Festival to be held from 13-15 March 

With entry free for all, the festival makes the finest conversations and ideas from across India & the world accessible to all, say the organisers. 

Mark Tully’s BBC assignment to India wasn’t by chance. It was a karmic connection

Mark Tully witnessed the BBC turn into an anti-India outfit and repeatedly shame and humiliate itself in world circles. Never mind. Tully lives on, and his old BBC lives on.

The best non-fiction books read by ThePrint columnists in 2025

From artificial intelligence and India’s development journey to debates on Hinduism, majoritarianism, and the Intelligence Bureau, these books captured the attention of ThePrint’s columnists in 2025.

Valley of Words announces 2025 REC-VoW Book Award winners in 8 categories

This year, the awards drew over 600 nominations. Each award carries a prize of Rs. 1 lakh & participation in a panel discussion at the festival finale in Dehradun on 25 & 26 October.

Marxism still sells in Modi’s India. LeftWord Books is thriving

LeftWord Books, which is 25 this year, challenges the idea that Leftist ideas are past their sell-by date. Its booklist doesn’t shy away from dissent.

This professor wanted to translate ‘A Passage to India’ to Hindi. King’s College rudely denied

A new anthology discussing Forster's A Passage to India brought scholars together last week in Delhi. The consensus— it's 'the greatest novel written by a Westerner about India ever.'

New book traces lives of self-proclaimed descendants of House of Awadh, residents of Malcha Mahal

Published by HarperCollins India, 'The House of Awadh' will be released on 12 March on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

How Crossword Bookstores turned the page in a struggling book retail market

Since its 2021 acquisition by ABH, Crossword has gone back to ‘book-first’ roots, expanding its footprint & turning a profit by tapping into social media trends, coffee chain tie-ups

On Camera

Mo Salah changed Liverpool beyond football. Hate crimes dropped by 19% after he joined

In a city like Liverpool, Salah became something more than a footballer. 'Salah became so popular that most of the babies born in Merseyside were named after him.'

Centre cuts excise duty by Rs 10/litre to absorb global oil shock, levies export tax to steady supply

Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman & Hardeep Puri say govt effort meant to shield consumers from oil shock. Nayara Energy had raised pump prices Thursday

India’s fourth S-400 system ready in Russia, undergoing final testing before delivery

The system was to delivered in March but will now reach the Indian shores by May, or June. The fifth S-400 will be delivered in the last quarter of this year.

The Vishwaguru delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world

One side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its strength. Both are wrong.