Books to read in the New Year

Here is a list of must-read fiction and non-fiction coming out in the year 2019.

Non-Fiction – 2019

The very first on the list stands...

Volunteers to add overlooked Stories of Women to Wikipedia

Our culture has a glaring tendency to elevate the achievements of men over the achievements of women. In fact, ...

Picture Books and Coming-of-age Stories

As research on transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth becomes increasingly prevalent in litera...

Nuuk Nordisk Kulturfestival: Eccentric and Out of this World!

Nuuk Nordic is a festival born in 2015 and takes place every second year, in Nuuk, Greenland. It is a contemporary art and culture festival that presents a range...

Old Railway Coaches to shelter the Homeless this Winter

Winter is here! While we are lucky enough to spend the nights snugged up in a warm and cosy blanket, the down-and-outers don't even have a roof over their head. In November...

Corks Film Festival Brings Cinema To Cork City Central Library All Year Round

The Cork Film Festival will be the first Irish festival to pilot a new European-wide project to bring festival films to public libraries. One of only seven festivals across...

A Scooter-Riding Bookseller Has Served Kolkatta Better Than Amazon Could Ever Hope To

From Vir Sanghvi to Aveek Sarkar, everyone is a fan of Tarun Kumar Shaw’s unique personal book home delivery service. If a book has been printed, and is in circulatio...

Turn Over A New Leaf At Kala Ghoda Arts Festival In Mumbai

This year’s literature line-up at the HT Kala Ghoda Arts Festival includes Padma Lakshmi, Dibakar Banerjee, Ashwin Sanghi — and you! We’re inviting book l...

Content Makeover

Television channels are known to have shrugged their shoulders at non-Hindi preferred viewers. The argument being: these eyeballs aren?t money spinners. It is indeed ironic...