24 AUG 2020 · Bloomsbury India has refused to publish a book 'Delhi Riots 2020: The Inside Story' and has caught itself between devil and the deep sea. Journalist, author and former editor of Times of India, Kingshuk Nag speaks about how the UK based publishing house mishandled the situation. Gurugram based Garuda Publications will now be publishing the book.

10 APR 2020 · Famous playwright from Japan Tozhikazu Kawaguchi has written a novel based on his award-winning play 'Before The Coffee Gets Cold' and my search for a book less than 100 pages took me back to Ruskin Bond's novella 'Looking for the Rainbow' his memoir of the time he spent with his father.

31 MAR 2020 · Introduction to Aravind Adiga's book Amnesty, extract from Cricket 2.0 about the origin of the T20 format and more from today's world of books on special Lock down edition of Lit It Up with Rajeshwari Kalyanam

30 MAR 2020 · Manu S Pillais session on #readinstead, Taslima's sequel to Lajja and Hyma Goparaju's Abandoned Daughter in today's edition of Lit It Up with Rajeshwari Kalyanam Picture Courtesy: Week

29 MAR 2020 · A quick update on what's happening in the world of books ...stay tuned for regular updates and recommendations

22 FEB 2020 · When at Jaipur Literature Festival you not just enjoy listening to the authors you know and have read; you also discover some new and brilliant ones. Ruth Padel and her poetry was such a discovery for me. In this second part of her interview on the biography 'Beethoven Variations' she speaks about the tragedy on Beethoven's life when he goes deaf at 29, how he makes some of the best music during the time and his obsession with Sanskrit text Shakuntala.

5 FEB 2020 · One of my best interviews from Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 was of Ruth Padel who comes up with her own version of lyrical tribute to one of the greatest composers Beethoven. She explores his life and through her book 'Beethoven Variations: A Life in Poems' she sketches a tragic life story that left behind some of the best music to the world. Ruth also recites her poetry making this one of my best interactions.

5 FEB 2020 · Yet another amazing interview from the Jaipur Literature Festival where author, travel writer Katie Hickman talks about her book 'She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India' that once again brings to light the forgotten entities in the pages of history - Women

31 JAN 2020 · Frank Dikötter, Dutch historian who specialises in modern China released his latest book 'How to be a Dictator' which is surely not a guide, but an insight into what makes a dictator. He traces the identity and similarities and contracts in a handful of chosen dictators of the modern world and it surely includes Mao. His other books include Maos Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation.

28 JAN 2020 · Sarojini's Mother published by Penguin Random House is a novel set in Kolkata about a woman who comes to India looking for her biological mother and ends up with two women from two opposite ends of economic spectrum. Kunal Basu speaks about literary novel, how after his book Kalkatta, the city comes back into his novel and what makes the novelist in him.