Paromita Chakrabarti

Three recent tragedies highlight how rising competition, shrinking emotional support and digital overload are leaving children overwhelmed

The top 5 books we picked for 2025 examine ambition, solitude and the fragilities of modern life in exceptional works of fiction, history and memoir

Shukla's literary career spanned more than five decades, during which he produced poetry, short stories, novels and essays that resisted easy classification.

From intimate betrayals to institutional rot, our pick of the year's best thrillers examines power, complicity and moral compromise

The Ranikhet-based writer on her first book-length collection of non-fiction essays and the everyday signs of ecological crisis in Kumaon Himalaya

At its core, menstrual leave is a conversation not just about days off but about whether the workplace is willing to reckon with the body it expects women to leave at the door

Representation matters; visibility matters; the slow accumulation of presence matters. But it must be read as an opening move in a much longer negotiation

Top-down affirmative action is crucial but the language of welfare is now saturated with this metaphor of bestowal. It avers over and over again that women’s foregrounding is contingent on the right government, the right man, the right moment of political generosity

A decade since its reinvention, the award has worked to give translators, independent publishers a seat at the global table

Persepolis author took world inside post-revolution Iran, amplified sorrows, demands of its women