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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

What ThePrint editors read in 2024—food history, geopolitics to graphic novels

ThePrint editors’ 2024 reading list was interesting and insightful. Here are their recommendations.

Aruna Roy once worked with an ‘extremely crude’ politician. Jane Austen came to her rescue

Roy was speaking at the debut session of a lecture series, ‘Literature Matters’, by Hindi writer and cultural czar Ashok Vajpeyi’s Raza Foundation.

Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar is dying. Mughlai sells, not Manto & Mirza Ghalib

More than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry.

On Camera

This oil shock hits differently for the US

While the 1970s and 2022 shocks supercharged US inflation, a sustained conflict with Iran would primarily hit the American economy through slower growth.

India has options beyond choked Strait of Hormuz. But conditions apply

Nearly 50% of India’s crude imports are exposed to the chokepoint. So far this year, India has imported an average of 2.6 million barrels per day (mbpd) from Gulf countries.

Indian Navy says it deployed P-8I, diverted ships to boost efforts to rescue sunk Iran warship’s crew

Two Indian naval ships involved in the search and rescue operations in connection with IRIS Dena, which was operating 20 NM West of Galle in SAR region under Sri Lankan responsibility.

Pakistan is fighting a two-front war. I saw it coming 15 yrs ago

The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.