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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
TopicPenguin Random House India

Topic: Penguin Random House India

Marina Beach shoreline was garlanded with barbed wire & a ‘dummy fort’ to scare away Japanese bombers

In The Great Flap of 1942, Mukund Padmanabhan recalls the time between December 1941 to mid-1942 – when the Raj panicked over a Japanese non-invasion.

Babur fell hopelessly in love with a boy called Baburi. Roamed love-sick like a madman

In 'Babur: The Chessboard King', Aabhas Maldahiyar brings to life the many faces of Mughal emperor Babur, challenging his typical depictions.

Kalyan Jewellers’ TS Kalyanaraman once made a romantic film. ‘It was a disaster’

Most of the stalwarts of Malayalam cinema were our family friends, writes TS Kalyanaraman in his autobiography, ‘The Golden Touch’.

New book on fake news unveils dark secrets of misinformation, offers insightful analysis

Published by Penguin India, ‘Fake News: Spot It, Stop It’ by Gaurav Sood will be released on 11 December on Softcover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Nehru & Savarkar shared one thing – the use of sacred geography to build national identity

In 'Soul and Sword', Hindol Sengupta traces the history of political Hinduism in India and tries to understand the context and historical sources used to construct and promote it.

Did Bose hide in Nagaland? People remember a bearded ‘North Indian’ with Gandhi spectacles

In 'His Majesty's Headhunters', Mmhonlümo Kikon recalls the untold story of the siege of Kohima, considered the last battle of the British Empire and the first battle of New India.

How JJ Irani stopped Tata Steel from becoming Tata Museum

In 'Doctor Steel' Jamshed Jiji Irani recalls his efforts to modernise Tata Steel, his time with JRD Tata, and his fondness for life.

Long before the gold rush, the American West had experienced a ‘seaweed rush’

Vincent Doumeizel’s ‘The Seaweed Revolution’ explores the longstanding association of seaweeds with human history, proposing them as a solution to global problems.

Anil Ambani to Vijay Mallya—How India’s 4 top businessmen lost fortune, fame

In 'Unfinished Business', Nandini Vijayaraghavan chronicles the lives of India's top business leaders to highlight the country's corporate trajectory.

Modernisation, Modi, and Madhya Pradesh: The 3 Ms that reformed the BJP

Ajay Singh's 'The Architect of The New BJP' traces Narendra Modi's tremendous turnaround of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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BJP is going after AAP not because it’s opposed to it but because they’re too similar

Jealousy between political parties arises from close competition in their goals, strategies, or voter bases. It's a reaction to perceived threats to a party's influence.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

Taiwan reports Chinese military activity around the island

Taiwan has detected a total of 301 Chinese military aircraft and 165 Chinese naval vessels so far in 2024.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.