Paromita Chakrabarti

Weeks after Canadian Nobel laureate's death, her daughter tells the story of abuse at the hands of Munro's husband — and the writer's silent acquiescence

Even if one were to put away moral considerations, half-knowledge is dangerous preparation for the competitive realm of higher education. In particular, when it comes to the sciences, always aspirational for India’s middle class, it is unhelpful to remain divorced from standardised global discourses on it

What we don't talk about when we talk about rape Not the power asymmetries that silence women and are at the heart of all sexual violence, nor the masculine, majoritarian language of the law that puts the burden of guilt back on women

Whether in power or in Opposition, it is in her role as the underdog that the West Bengal CM has been most at ease. But she now finds herself at an impasse. Can she find a way out of it?

In this time of rapid environmental change, climate fiction is a genre that is increasingly gaining currency, even if its practitioners are still finding their way around the scope of the Anthropocene.

In the sparsely-written work, Desai explores the unknown layers to individual lives that get subsumed in the quiet violence of the everyday

For most millennial parents, there is little or no precedence on how they can guide their children through this problem, given their own digital gap and the impracticality of keeping a surveillance on children's online lives. They could do with all the help possible

It might be too big an ask of a corporation intent on maximising profit to be a record keeper of our inner lives, but perhaps, it could be a more faithful custodian of the background score to our fleeting days so we have an inkling of who we were and who we have become

Booker Prize 2024 winner on faith, philosophy and the importance of tuning out noise in a hyper-connected world, and why she wanted to stay away from the overtly political in her novel Orbital

Our pick of the year's best crime novels 1. Murder at the Castle Hardcover by David Safier Murder at the Castle by David Safier (Source: Amazon)