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Students must ask questions. Just do it with propriety: Amish Tripathi

In ‘Dhruv-Tara’, Amish Tripathi revives the method used by 12th-century mathematician Bhaskaracharya, who turned math principles into poems and stories for his daughter.

The name is Bond. How Ruskin Bond climbed Feroz Shah Kotla wall to see a match

In a candid chat, India's favourite author, Ruskin Bond, shares witty anecdotes from his past as he learns to walk again after undergoing spinal surgery.

Indian parents are in a new race. Turning children into book authors is the new black belt

India’s boom in child authors — powered by talent, parents, AI.

‘No one can touch me’—Harassment charge against Krishna Kalpit shakes Hindi literary world

A young poet spoke up about being sexually harassed by a senior writer at Nayi Dhara's residency programme in Patna. Now Hindi literary world is confronting a long-ignored rot.

We asked publishers and writers which non-fiction authors shaped public debate in 2024

ThePrint’s panel of jurors for selecting non-fiction Indian authors included William Dalrymple, Ashutosh Varshney, Shinie Anthony, Anirudh Kanisetti, Chiki Sarkar, Arpita Das, and Karthika VK.

In new show, Divya Prakash Dubey narrates a heartwarming story about his neighbour Kitty Bhaiya

After a successful show in Mumbai, Dubey brought ‘Storybaazi’ to Delhi. A 90-minute storytelling session, the show is an attempt to promote books more creatively.

Indian LGBTQ+ fiction is out of the ‘cupboard’. With a non-elitist, non-Western language

Two out of eight customers walking into New Delhi’s Eureka Bookstore ask for LGBTQ-themed books.

Ambedkar’s London years to China through Indian eyes, 4 must-read books

Summer reading is an oddity in India. So, here's my late monsoon reading list.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.