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Book Box:Why Those in Power Fear Your Bookshelf

From Mumbai’s Crowds to Irawati Karve’s Legacy— why stories are your best defence

Iru
Published on Dec 07, 2024 04:27 PM IST

Book Box: The Secrets of Winter Reading

How you can use winter to change the way you read

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Published on Nov 30, 2024 10:23 AM IST

Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?

How Goodreads stats, TBRs, and prize lists are turning reading into a competitive sport—here’s how we can slow down and savour the pages.

A view of a bookstore. (HT Photo)
Updated on Nov 23, 2024 10:24 AM IST

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

Soar into space, the sea, and serendipity with this year's Booker Prize-winning and shortlisted and longlisted novels.

Autumn turns to winter(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Nov 16, 2024 04:26 PM IST

Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books

Read these four fast-paced reads to keep you company when the silence settles in or when you want to break a reading slump

Listen for the Lie
Published on Nov 09, 2024 07:08 PM IST

Book Box | Discovering Kaikeyi, the woman behind the villain

How a book I didn’t want to read ended up changing my Diwali

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Nov 02, 2024 03:35 PM IST

Book Box | The art of brand storytelling with Suta Sarees

Explore the art of storytelling with Taniya Biswas of Suta Sarees, where every outfit carries a tale

The author and Taniya Biswas at a session with students(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Oct 26, 2024 08:10 PM IST

Tunnel vision: How Elif Shafak helps to see the world differently

From Istanbul's domes to Himalayan rivers, some stories wait for the right moment—have you revisited a book that finally spoke to you?

There are Rivers in the Sky(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Oct 19, 2024 07:13 PM IST

Book Box | Why we need to read Nobel laureate Han Kang

From unsettling truths to brilliantly bizarre storytelling, here are seven reasons why the newest Nobel laureate is a must-read

South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on May 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)(AP)
Published on Oct 12, 2024 06:34 PM IST

Book Box | A book club travels to Uzbekistan

From sheesh kebabs to Scheherazade, the Juhu book club celebrates its twentieth anniversary by exploring the stories of the Silk Route

The author in Samarkand(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
Published on Oct 05, 2024 07:32 PM IST

Book Box | Packing list for a book club

From Soviet reads to surprise novels, a book club packs a library for their Silk Route adventure—because running out of books is not an option!

Book club(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Sep 29, 2024 12:02 AM IST

Book Box | Why I hug trees

Walk through forests and books to discover the healing power of trees

A forest path(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:00 AM IST

Book Box | Why readers can't have enough of books about bookstores

These feel-good books about bookstores provide a soothing sense of well-being, a connection with the community and a return to the simple pleasures of life.

Bookseller Sherab at the Book Worm Manali(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Sep 15, 2024 08:00 AM IST

Book Box | How to stay calm

From breathing to boundaries, here are books to help you stay calm in an age of anxiety

Breath by James Nestor(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Sep 07, 2024 08:37 PM IST

Book Box | How to be alone

Read this Belgian-American poet and writer to inspire you when you are alone.

The bookshelf in the study(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Aug 31, 2024 06:26 PM IST

Book Box | Why leaders should read science fiction

These three sci-fi titles are an easy way to get you started on the road to being a better leader

Ender's Game(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Aug 24, 2024 06:29 PM IST

Book Box | The Reading India Project

A book club sets aside bestseller lists, to discover India, one book at a time

Holiday books(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Aug 17, 2024 09:06 PM IST

Book Box | Eight life-changing books to read in your twenties and beyond

From inspiring stories of artists to tackling writer's block, these eight books make adulting easier.

The Artist’s Way(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
Published on Aug 11, 2024 12:32 AM IST

Book Box | A browsing list of eight new and notable books

Here's a round-up of recent reads, a mix of genres that includes the latest Amor Towles and the forthcoming Matt Haig.

A browsing list of eight new and notable books for you(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
Published on Aug 03, 2024 08:18 PM IST

Book Box | Meet award-winning mystery writer Angie Kim

This Stanford and Harvard-educated former lawyer dips heavily into her own life and adds research to craft pacy and prizewinning whodunits

Angie Kim (courtesy: Angie Kim)
Published on Jul 28, 2024 12:19 AM IST

Book Box | Meet storytelling guru Sid Jain

Sid Jain's journey from stock market whiz to the man who adapts books to screen is full of quirky life lessons, like how you can land a job without a resume

 Sid Jain(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
Published on Jul 20, 2024 08:55 PM IST

Doppelgangers and dissonance: When Neil Gaiman and Alice Munro disappoint

Find answers to a readers dilemma in three different books — an award-winning non-fiction, a classic and a sci-fi police procedural

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
Published on Jul 13, 2024 08:04 PM IST

The leadership lessons from these 10 inspiring memoirs

A search through a universe of memoirs throws up real-life stories with leadership lessons for students of management

10 memoirs with leadership lessons
Published on Jul 07, 2024 01:30 AM IST

Book Box | The book club that cracked the personality code

A summer reading group discovers archetypes and the power of reading for relationships

Archetypes by Caroline Myss(Image from Caroline Myss's YouTube channel)
Published on Jun 29, 2024 11:33 PM IST

Book Box | Three unexpected ways to introduce yourself

Experimenting with tell-me-about-yourself questions reveals creative ways of connecting with people

Sonya Dutta Choudhury(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Jun 23, 2024 12:37 AM IST

Meet V.V (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, this year's Women's Prize for Fiction winner

Ganeshananthan, the writer of a novel set during the Sri Lankan civil war, talks about the term ‘terrorist’, feminist reading groups and the craft of writing

V.V (Sugi) Ganeshananthan and Brotherless Night(Women’s Prize)
Published on Jun 17, 2024 06:31 PM IST

Book Box | The difficulty of raising children in virtual and real worlds

The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt raises questions about the best ways to raise healthy and happy children in both the virtual and the real worlds.

The Anxious Generation(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Jun 09, 2024 01:23 AM IST

Book Box | Meet the history buff turned spy writer Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre on the psychology of spies and how to turn historical facts into riveting spy novels

Ben Macintyre (Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
Published on Jun 02, 2024 01:39 AM IST

Book Box | Why we need spy stories

From spotting the liar, to sharpening our intuition, reading spy stories is a fun way to pick up smart skills

Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
Published on May 25, 2024 06:42 PM IST

Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist

Six shortlisted titles set in Sri Lanka, Palestine, China, and the Aussie outback take me on an emotional journey to find the perfect Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist is enticing
Published on May 19, 2024 12:02 AM IST
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