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.
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.
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.'
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.
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
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.
Books by self-help authors like Ankur Warikoo, Robin Sharma, and Jay Shetty promote toxic positivity, hustle culture, and phony motivation, depending on their angle. It’s just a brief mental high.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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