Books

By Caitlin Macdonald Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was...

By Roslyn Petelin A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons...

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the prestigious 2025 International Booker Prize...

By Jenni Ramone It’s often the case that when poets write novels, they deliver arrestingly vivid...

I first visited Lebanon in 1978, three years into the civil war and six years before...

Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 75th birthday in England on July 10. This is the birthday of...

PICTURE TALK Two Indian women named Amrita by their parents, both born into Punjabi Sikh families,...

PICTURE TALK One morning, Khushwant ji called me up and asked how soon I could reach...

H. D. Deve Gowda’s biographer rates his “deep political engagement” as his greatest legacy and believes...

By Uma Sharma (From New Delhi) A Mother’s Goodbye is Kasturi Patra’s debut novel. Published by...