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How to tell a story, and how not to: Writers, poets debate

Chaudhuri had used a strong four letter expletive to signify his disillusionment with storytelling.

02 Mar 2018 1:27 AM

National Book Trust and the Publications Board of Assam. (Photo: Pixabay)

Brahmaputra tales: A literary homecoming

This was the first dated printed book in the world, a translation meant for free distribution.

16 Feb 2018 2:33 AM

The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays records the relentless quest for copies of the Shakespeare First Folio by the millionaire Henry Folger who worked for many years with Nelson Rockefeller in Standard Oil. (Photo: Pixabay)

Shelve a book and store a memory

Mays records that five copies of the First Folio are in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library in Oxford has one precious copy.

02 Feb 2018 1:25 AM

The 2018 edition of Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible gives pride of lace to Paul John’s Kanya a single malt from Goa. (Photo: Pixabay)

Don’t drown the whisky, go easy on the soda!

At the IIC, Devanesen spoke to me about Shillong, what an exciting place it was and his plans for the university.

19 Jan 2018 12:48 AM

A book fair, on the other hand, is a larger space for the general public to browse at leisure and select the books of their choice. (Photo: Pixabay)

A fair where books matter the most

The New Delhi World Book Fair is primarily a book retail fair where books are sold on an over-the-counter basis to customers.

05 Jan 2018 1:00 AM

In the absence of writing and the ability to record information, people were forced to use and develop their memory to remember. With this newfound power, the Pharaoh believed people would no longer use their faculty of memory and simply refer to the written text to recall something that they had forgotten. (Representational image)

With everything recorded in books, what happens to memory?

The secret police discovered he is a Russian and incarcerated in a concentration camp for two years.

29 Dec 2017 12:14 AM

A good book leaves an impression on us and we resolve on recommending it to friends. (Photo: Pixabay)

A movement for making kids fall in love with reading

Children too have a short attention span as their days are packed with so much activity.

21 Dec 2017 11:27 PM

The collection of Garden Ltd was put together by Haven O’More and later auctioned by Sotheby’s, the arch-rival of Christies. (Photo: Pixabay)

Say no more

In the 1980s, two of the greatest book collections in history were auctioned at astronomical values.

01 Dec 2017 1:03 AM

Doing better in maths: Chinese tips

Malcolm Gladwell in his book The Outliers states we have different number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages.

24 Nov 2017 12:10 AM

Audiobooks have had a mixed reception in India as the consumer listening experience is overwhelmingly for music.

Hearing stories: Audiobooks may become next big thing

There is an interesting anecdote to the history of promoting audiobooks.

17 Nov 2017 1:09 AM

Birders using a tower hide to gain views over foreground vegetation.

Now tell it to the birds...

It’s perhaps not that well known, that books on birds have a very good market in India and have a defined readership.

10 Nov 2017 12:49 AM

A requiem for Macaulay

A quiz question in school could be to ask the children to name the books associated with these authors.

13 Oct 2017 12:35 AM

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