Books
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Are diet books the ones that tell the most persuasive stories of all?
Adrienne Rose Bitar, The Conversation
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India’s first ‘bibliomystery’ in English is about a unique manuscript by Sir Richard Burton
Pradeep Sebastian
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Children’s Day: A publisher is designing stories for mobile phones to get more children to read
Scroll Staff
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Interview with Rajdeep Sardesai: ‘MS Dhoni is the symbol of India’s vaulting aspirations’
Scroll Staff
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If you check in at the world’s largest literary hotel, you might never want to go out (or leave)
Ipshita Mitra
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Five novels from America you must read (because they’re shortlisted for the US National Book Award)
Anu Kumar
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In Bengaluru, reading groups (some of them underground) are using books to live outside the machine
Satyavrat KK
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Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘novels of great emotional force’
Scroll Staff
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Why Westerners (including Mark Twain) failed to understand the multiplicity of idols in India
Diana L Eck
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Your children can now be characters in storybooks, but what does it mean for their privacy?
Natalia Kucirkova, The Conversation
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Reading with my father, from my childhood till the time the end was near for him
Amrita Tripathi
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The Library of Congress opened its catalogues to the world. Here’s why it matters
Melissa Levine, The Conversation
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Finally, Indian parents have words and images to explain grief and loss to children
Bijal Vachharajani
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This project at the Mumbai Film Festival is trying to help Indian books find their way to the screen
Kanishka Gupta
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There’s no GST on books. And yet books will become more expensive
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Watch: This imaginative replica of the Parthenon was built with 100,000 copies of banned books
Scroll Staff
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Plagiarism is rampant in Indian food writing – but finally, bloggers have a way to fight it
Chanpreet Khurana
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The very silly world of Khushnaz Lala is full of pirates and children who like to play dress up
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Even children who don’t read are addicted to this series of books about a mouse. Why?
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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What classic novels tell us about climate change (quite a lot)
Philip Steer, The Conversation