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Salman Rushdie on Substack is either killing the novel or taking it back to its birth

It is not surprising that authors such as Patti Smith and Scott Snyder and a host of comic book authors from Marvel and DC have also entered Substack.

Betrayal, illusion, late middle age — John Le Carré novels were more than just spy thrillers

What makes Le Carré so great is his premise that our inner lives are perhaps best understood as a study in self-deception and self-revelation.

This tale of love, marriage, divorce is first state-sanctioned North Korean novel in English

'Friend' by Paek Nam-nyong was first published in 1988 becoming an instant bestseller and is a significant part of the North Korean literary canon.

Spy thrillers from the cold war need to make a comeback

Western spy fiction needs state actors with strong non-Western or, better, anti-Western values to become exciting again.

Kerala author Hareesh withdraws novel: Does attack stifle free expression or are writers being culturally insensitive?

Facing abuse from right wingers on social media, Hareesh said that he “was too weak” to take on the powerful. Hareesh’s novel, Mathrubhumi, got mired in controversy over its sexually explicit portrayal of Indian women. Experts weigh in.

The most hyped thriller this summer traces a world of heady excess and rotting corruption

Cristina Alger's new financial thriller tracks a group of globe-trotting financial criminals and the women who take them to task.

Gabriel Tallent’s ‘My Absolute Darling’ is a deliciously dark and heartrending novel

Tallent’s debut novel about a child growing up in isolation and then finding herself keeps the reader within its pages days after putting it down. 

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In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.