Loveless by Alice Oseman Aro-ace representation is something that we seldom see in YA novels. Loveless features an aro-ace protagonist, Georgia, who struggles with her identity. The novel takes us th...

Late in 1923, Franz Kafka lived in Berlin with his partner Dora Diamant. Herr Kafka had little money and was suffering from tuberculosis. Despite all that, it was the happiest he had been in a rather ...

7. The City of Good Death by Priyanka Champaneri (Penguin India) Yet another fascinating debut this year, Champaneri’s book picks up the unique existence of death hostels in Benaras as its back...

What is Christmas in Kolkata without a home-made rum cake and a never-ending supply of macaroons from Nahoums? A walk down Park Street with hot piping mutton rolls, carol singing at your local ch...

In August 2020, a new documentary on the Paralympic Movement hit a prominent OTT platform. Rising Phoenix is an hour-and-a-half-long non-fiction docu-drama that introduces you to a motley crew of char...

Many readers I know feel that the pandemic has dulled their ability to read and, in particular, finish books. While the anxiety and uncertainty during this time may indeed be responsible for such a lu...

A little further away from home, there is no other book that has upheld the dichotomy of this understanding better than Bernardine Evaristo in her Booker Prize-winning book Girl, Woman, Other. Be it A...

If you’ve been a firm believer of the fact that your IQ is going to shape the rest of your life, then Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence will make you think otherwise. Focussing inste...

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore Slip into your favourite pair of red shoes and enjoy McLemore’s young-adult fantasy retelling of the infamous fairy tale Red Shoes. Andersen’s ...

7. The Story of the First Civilizations: From Mesopotamia to the Aztecs by Subhadra Sen Gupta; Speaking Tiger; Rs 499 Posthumously published after children’s author Subhadra Sen Gupta’s u...