With the help of a presentation, Ray Choudhury emphasised the role of the Lottery Committee and explained how its impact is still being felt today. “I would like to thank my publishers. I studie...

Books placed on a tree in Alipurduar are not just driving out drug addicts from a 109-year-old club ground, but also spreading the joy of reading. Nimesh Lama, 25, an unemployed graduate from Kalchin...

A city school has opened its libraries for children from underprivileged homes, many of whom have no access to books. Mahadevi Birla World Academy started the reading initiative about a month back an...

Now, more than a month after the poet’s death, the dark shadow of collective grief and mourning seemed to be fading – if ever so slightly. Perhaps this was linked to the change in seasons;...

When Bharat returns to Ayodhya with Ram’s paduka, an insertion of a Radu shoes advertisement from a newspaper is noted. When Ravan steals Sita, a poster of the Hindi movie Hind Kesari showing Ba...

A city school organised a day-long inter-school fest on climate change on Thursday.  The fest was based on Amitav Ghosh’s book The Living Mountain, which the author himself described as &l...

Born in 1973, Aman Singh Maharaj lives in Durban, South Africa. A traveller with an avid interest in anthropology, he never ceases “to be enthralled by the sheer kaleidoscope of cultures, divers...

Feluda may not be the boy-next-door but sleuths seldom are. Feluda was never written to be ideal — he makes oversights, he gets arrogant, he procrastinates and gets angry. But he is also an avid...

A campus novel steeped in gothic horror, this Adam Nevill title manages to bridge the gap between paranormal fiction and academia. If you’re looking for a dark, slow-burning supernatural horror,...

“I wanted to add some classics and science fiction books to my reading list. I have already dropped A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens into my box. I also have GoldFinch by Donna Tartt and ...