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.
The dogs will survive whatever orders are passed. But institutions are more fragile than we imagine. Once lost, the trust they embody takes generations to rebuild.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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