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Topic: Penguin Random House India

Rajasthan’s Bhantus saw themselves as contemporary Robin Hoods—history didn’t

Bhantus were one of the 150 tribes the colonial British government had notified as ‘criminal tribes’, writes Nusrat F Jafri in 'This Land We Call Home'.

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.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.