Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

IndiGo’s mass flight cancellations reveal deeper failures in aviation regulation, pilot safety rules, and passenger rights, ...

Quirky, funny, and quietly profound, Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong is a novel to be cherished for its expansive vision of ...

A new scholarly volume examines Periyar’s unflinching critique of caste, his radical feminism, and his enduring impact on Indian political thought.

Historical roots and modern political use of antisemitism: how the term evolved from European "othering" to a tool for silencing Middle East dissent.

Nepal has issued a new Rs.100 note showing a revised political map that includes disputed territories claimed by India. Printed by a Chinese firm, the move revives long-standing border disagreements ...

The book’s success lies in its focus on environmental damage as the foremost danger of our times. That this stance comes from a bureaucrat-novelist is a telling signal to future policymakers.

Dear Reader, As I was going through the books released this year, I found to my surprise that many of them are about the Indian Railways (IR). I was surprised because the Railways ...

With toxic smog grounding flights and filling hospitals, Delhi’s air pollution crisis reveals systemic neglect. Experts warn that reactive policies like GRAP ignore structural causes, deepening health ...

Humayun Kabir’s Babri Masjid move reshapes Muslim politics in Bengal, sharpens communal divisions, and complicates the road ...

As Himachal CM Sukhu marks three years in office, he blames the Centre for denying disaster aid and fiscal dues amid debt, ...

The Menon Investigation is set in the India governed by caste rules. Here, inter-caste couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, in Coimbatore in 2023. | Photo Credit: Periasamy M “Don’t go around in the ...