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Sunil Gupta's new book on Tihar Jail is a gritty and unforgiving snapshot into the notorious prison. Getty.

'Confessions of a Tihar Jailer': secrets of India's most notorious prison laid bare in memoir

Sunil Gupta was a long time superintendent and then legal officer in the New Delhi jail

March 29, 2020

Viswanathan Anand, pictured at the 82nd Tata Steel Chess Tournament last month, has written a new book about his life and career. Getty Images

How to be a global chess champion: Viswanathan Anand reflects on a life at the top of his game

'There’s something to be said about working towards achieving a goal without obsessing over how far you’re from it,' the chess champion says

February 22, 2020

Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019. AFP.

'I'm a disastrous money manager': why Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee is the economics professor you wish you had

Banerjee and Esther Duflo – long-time collaborators and, since 2015, also husband and wife – have been familiar names to readers for a decade now

January 28, 2020

Belgian writer Georges Simenon penned more than 70 novels featuring the conscientious cop. Getty

Literature's enduring hero: The Inspector Maigret novels will soon all be available in English

The Parisian sleuth, and his author Georges Simenon, are some of the most beloved characters of the modern detective novel genre

September 22, 2019

Meals one sees in period paintings of the Mughals can be deceptive: was this a picture of reality or an idealised image meant to project power and pomp? Getty Images

'The Mughal Feast': unravelling the mysterious history of the emperors' cuisine

Learn of feasts from the court of Shah Jahan in a new book of royal recipes

September 15, 2019

Scroll down to find a recipe for duck egg curry, which appears in 'Mandalay' by Mimi Aye. Christian Barnett

'Mandalay' helps uncover the mystery of Burmese cuisine

Author Mimi Aye writes a warm and gentle book that uncovers the mystery of Burmese cuisine

September 1, 2019

Author Nayantara Sahgal with Frida Kahlo, centre. Wikimedia Commons

Nayantara Sahgal’s stark choice for India: it’s freedom or fascism

As the author releases her new novel, 'The Fate of Butterflies', we question why the 91-year-old's words still resonate so deeply in a modern landscape

April 20, 2019

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz smiles in his Cairo home in1988 AFP

Championing the unsung, silent heroes of literature

Boyd Tonkin’s celebration of the translators who bring us books from around the world is a literary panorama of great work

September 27, 2018

Marryam Reshii, one of India’s most respected and loved food writers. Hachette

Marryam Reshii’s 'The Flavour of Spice' has an extra kick

We chat to the food writer about her book, which details the history and uses of spices

July 21, 2018

Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, the author of history-rich novels such as Pyramid Texts and his latest, The Book of Epiphanies. Marwan Naamani / AFP

Latest in a string of history-obsessed Arabic novels

Roving freely across a thousand years of Arab history, Gamal al-Ghitani's latest novel presents, like his previous works, a collage of the multifarious roots of Egyptian identity, writes Chandrahas Choudhury

June 8, 2013

Bombay, which is now Mumbai, before partition. Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

Book review: Manto's daring short stories written during subcontinent partition

Saadat Manto's newly translated short stories exploring life in the cosmopolitan, laissez-faire Bombay of the 1930s and 1940s have enduring appeal, writes Chandrahas Choudhury

March 2, 2013

The juxtaposition of old and new, light and dark in Mumbai is the focus of many of this book's tales. Getty Images

Mumbai Noir: dark, eclectic tales about the city's thriving underworld

The stories in this noir anthology are as raw and diverse as the city of Mumbai itself, humming with the feel for the city's pulse and patter.

July 28, 2012

A street scene of Lahore in 1946, months before Partition. Margaret Bourke-White / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

This Is Not That Dawn: India and Pakistan in the time of Partition

Yashpal's 1,100-page novel presents a searing narrative on a wound that has never quite healed.

April 20, 2012

Becoming Dickens / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst / Harvard University Press / Dh111

Becoming Dickens: 'from sketch writer to novelist'

In Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's latest book, one of a raft of new releases that mark this week's bicentenial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the author focuses on the literary giant's early career.

February 3, 2012

Kashmiri protesters throw stones at Indian paramilitary troops during a protest in the city of Srinagar. Rouf Bhat / AFP

The Kashmiri resistance movement comes of age

In his new book, Sanjay Kak examines the Kashmiri resistance movement, a widespread, centreless struggle for the right of self-determination that he believes has finally come of age.

December 8, 2011

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Coronavirus: Emirati student recalls ordeal battling virus

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The Debt Panel: 'I lost my job 14 months ago, so how do I clear the Dh110,000 I owe?'

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The Social Distance Project is sharing people's everyday dramas in self-isolation with partners, friends and family members. Instagram

The Instagram account sharing relatable insights into life in isolation

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Thousands gather for the twice-yearly conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2019. The church will open its first temple in the Middle East in Dubai. Rick Bowmer / AP

Dubai to welcome Middle East's first Mormon temple

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