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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: bookworm

Walking librarian — the Kerala woman who distributes over 500 books a month on foot

Residents of the hilly Mothakkara village in Kerala’s Wayanad district had no easy access to books at the library. Then Radhamani took matters into her own hands.

How a 40-day dharna over minimum wages in Rajasthan resulted in the RTI Act

A new book titled ‘The RTI Story: Power to the People’ by Aruna Roy chronicles how the simple act of demanding minimum wages became a struggle for the ‘right to know’.

How Directorate S, ISI’s most diabolical branch, outsmarted US in Kabul, continued subverting India

Steve Coll’s 'Directorate S' is about how ISI was allowed to succeed in blocking the United States’ efforts to impose a stable, democratic order in Afghanistan.

We That Are Young: A modern-day Shakespearean tragedy

Preti Taneja’s debut novel 'We That Are Young' is a perfect cocktail of well-etched Shakespearean characters in contemporary India.

No Songs for Silence: A Review of Gulzar’s ‘Two’

In Two, Gulzar carves the facts of the partition to its bare bones in a masterpiece stoic prose

‘Loyal Stalkers’: A captivating read with lively conversations and subtle humour

Chimmi Tenduf-La has, yet again, managed to make the conventional seem anomalous.   “In Colombo, everyone knows everyone and no one can hide,” certainly stands...

About falling in love, growing up, experiencing life and mental illness

Turtles All The Way Down is cautious, careful, and apprehensive. At no point, however, does the novel romanticise mental illness. We live in a time...

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

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.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

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.