Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The firebrand Kannada writer, advocate and activist, Banu Mushtaq, ...

Former Commander-in-Chief and ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s inadequate defence of the war-winning armed forces ...

A Melancholic Song for Public Education and Social Enlightenment by Liyanage Amarakeerthi Guru Geethaya , the song of a teacher, the Sinhala version of Chingiz Aitmatov’s famous novel, The First ...

Writer and Professor Will Self argued that what drove writers of “difficult” literature in the twentieth century was “a ...

As the nineteenth-century British liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, “the sacred duties which civilized nations owed to the independence and nationality of each other are not binding towards ...

Trudeau opened the summit pledging to give 25 light-armoured vehicles to Ukraine and to provide the country with the first payment of the $5 billion in funds from seized Russian assets.

and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. It chronicles the travels and adventures of medium-size landlord Pavel Chichikov (a main character of the novel) and the people ...

The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...

What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming ...

War-related recruitment and emigration have caused widespread labour shortages, pushing Russian unemployment to a record low 2.3%. Inflation pressure could also ease, Kolyandr added, as peace ...

Stocks posted gains. The reelection of former President Donald Trump initially pleased investors who had worried about another protracted legal battle regarding the election’s results. However ...

“Russian aggression” has been used in G7 statements dating back to the start of the conflict, as has the descriptor of the conflict as an “illegal war of aggression.” The bloc has acted as ...