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Blacktown’s first free street library

A street library has been launched at 146 Fairwater Boulevard, Blacktown – breathing new life into a love for books and community. Called the ‘146...

Aadhaar, hartal feature in Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary

Aadhaar and hartal are among the 26 new Indian-English words that feature among the staggering 86,000 words in the 10th edition of the world-renowned...

Twinkle Khanna's book wins at 17th Crossword awards

Twinkle Khanna's fiction novel 'Pyjamas are Forgiving' has won the Crossword Book Award (Popular) for Fiction for last year. Speaking at the 17th edition of...

Freedom-era books, documents to go under hammer at Prinseps

A selection of books, newsletters and documents by luminaries of the Indian freedom struggle from the first half of the 20th century, will go...

Book review: Fern Road by Angshu Dasgupta

At a time when readers are more and more often confronted with a chaotic oversupply of clutter and social media stimuli, Angshu Dasgupta has...

A new take on adulting by Neharika Gupta

Adulting by Neharika Gupta, is a book about love. About loving your friends, loving your family, loving your career, loving yourself, and loving your...

Urdu Mahabharata e-book in Rekhta's virtual library

It's a virtual library where some 90,000 titles in Urdu - including the Mahabharata and the Quran, as also autobiographies, fiction, travelogues, translations, manuscripts...

Adelaide’s Jaipur Literature Fest, 2019 was a star-studded affair

Literature Festival nuggets Scottish writer William Dalrymple traces his family back to Mughal princess Noorjehan, but also has some Brahmin blood in his veins. *...

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