To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Penguin Random House India has announced the acquisition of Mahesh Rao’s Half Light, a deeply atmospheric and tender novel ...

Karnataka’s Electric Bike Taxi Scheme, launched in 2021 with a cheerful promise of clean, green, last-mile mobility, has now been quietly towed off the road. What started as an earnest attempt to ...

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A range of stakeholders from the book trade including publishers, editors, booksellers, rights managers and marketing professionals participated in the twelfth edition of JBM ...

Karnataka-based writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection ‘Heart Lamp’, translated from Kannada to English by Deepa Bhasthi, was on Tuesday shortlisted for the International ...

It is the first book from Kannada, and the second from India, to make the shortlist. The winner will be announced on May 20 ...

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Discover adventure and history in medieval India through Shandana Minhas' new novel, blending fantasy with vivid storytelling ...

In her latest book India's First Radicals, Rosinka Chaudhuri sheds light on the pioneering radicalism of Young Bengal—a group ...

A Reddit user boiled penguin eggs which turned see-through rather than opaque like chicken eggs. This happens due to the unique composition of the albumen in penguin eggs. Penguin eggs and meat ...

The book, slated for a global release on November 4, under the Hamish Hamilton imprint, comprises three novellas and two shorter works set across India, England, and the US. The stories reflect themes ...