books
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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
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This instagram account shows why books are also beautiful objects
Shireen Quadri
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A scooter-riding bookseller has served Kolkata better than Amazon could ever hope to
Chandrima Pal
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Five reasons I learnt to stop turning a deaf ear to (and start loving) audiobooks
Devapriya Roy
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If these libraries do not exist in the real world yet, they should
Parvathy Raveendran
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When the British colonial government banned a 1930 book arguing against freedom for India
Alex Hailey
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‘Yours is a midlist book’: Why writers never want to hear their publishers say this
Kanishka Gupta
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Love, pain and film-making in Kashmir make this novel an unusual story from the state
Jai Arjun Singh
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Watch: How would a bookshop look if only books by women were visible? The gender gap is alarming
Scroll Staff