Arundhati Roy visited the Penguin office in Gurugram every day for a week, signing every pre-ordered copy. The idea was to encourage readers to buy from bookstores instead of Amazon.
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.
The market is flooded with books on every imaginable wrinkle of the Modi era. And they are not just written by journalists & scholars. A new breed of writers is emerging – CEOs, tech gurus, RSS followers and self-published experts.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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