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Read my book review of 'A Home for Mrs M' by @JaishreeMisra @speakingtiger14: https://t.co/T7jsSLZ89u

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You asked, and we listened. To everyone outside India who has been patiently asking how to get the English translation of Shibram Chakraborty's forgotten classic—it is finally listed on @stck_me:

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Check out my interview with historian Deana Heath and political scientist @LokaneetaJinee for @htTweets. Their edited volume, Policing and Violence in India, is published by @speakingtiger14.
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Holocaust survivors said the genocide didn't begin in the gas chambers. It began with words.

Harsh Mander's It Started with Words traces how hate speech moved from India's fringe to its centre, and asks who can regulate the speech the state depends on.

Read the full review here: https://t.co/B7WBaZ6SIT

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On the @htTweets Books page today, an interview with Deana Heath+ @LokaneetaJinee, co-editors, Policing and Violence in India, a review of @FukuyamaFrancis 's In the Realm of the Last Man + an interview with Sean Hewitt, author, Open, Heaven
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@htTweets @LokaneetaJinee @FukuyamaFrancis @speakingtiger14 @HachetteIndia This week's pick of interesting reads on @htTweets includes books by @japs99, @IpshitaNath and Rumer Godden
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.@DaanishBinNabi reviews @Teresa_Rehman's THE HAJJ STORY. Read on:

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Handwritten memoirs, tucked into trunks, and printed for family only.

Teresa Rehman spent years recovering the lost tradition of women's Hajj diaries from Assam widows, actors, botanists & poets who wrote about faith, heat, crowds & menstruation.

'Her Hajj Story' | @speakingtiger14
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Read the full review here: https://t.co/hsrSMlGMob

#HerHajjStory #HajjMemoirs #Assam #MuslimWomen #BookReview

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Handwritten memoirs, tucked into trunks, and printed for family only.

Teresa Rehman spent years recovering the lost tradition of women's Hajj diaries from Assam widows, actors, botanists & poets who wrote about faith, heat, crowds & menstruation.

'Her Hajj Story' | @speakingtiger14
@DaanishBinNabi

Read the full review here: https://t.co/hsrSMlGMob

#HerHajjStory #HajjMemoirs #Assam #MuslimWomen #BookReview

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"To be ignored is the best possible thing for a writer."

Rumer Godden grew up in colonial Bengal, opened a dance school in Calcutta, wrote Black Narcissus, and then India never left her.

'Every Least Thing' gathers her Indian years in one volume.

Read the full review here: https://t.co/mYF5cGtTOy

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The Non-Fiction longlist for the AG-BLF Book Prize 2026 is here! Discover thought-provoking ideas & real-life stories.

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Omair Ahmad discusses his new novel, 'Homecoming', with @JBhattacharji on the TOI Bookmark Podcast. A fascinating conversation! @TOIPlus @TimesSpecialTOI

Listen in: https://t.co/SaG784cQYg

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Why does Saeed Naqvi's memoir matter in today's media landscape? Our latest review explores journalism, foreign reporting, media narratives, and the importance of seeing world events through an independent lens.

Read here: https://t.co/xdYYWqWMUI

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"I looked at the two recipients of Phooli-jân’s favour with interest – for that the bunches of red rhododendron they both wore were her gift I did not doubt."

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An excerpt from ‘At Her Beck and Call’ by Flora Annie Steel in ‘The Raj in Ghostly Light: Supernatural Stories from British India’, edited by BC Dutt.

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Drawn from photographic work produced by Prashant Panjiar over four decades, ‘Ayodhya: Epicentre of a Divide’ offers a powerful and revealing portrait of a city that became the heart of a campaign to reshape India.

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Featuring an essay by Valay Singh, the book releases on 1 November 2026.

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Written by Aditya Mukherjee, Mridula Mukherjee and Sucheta Mahajan, the book releases on 28 October 2026.

Now available on pre-order, and soon in bookstores near you.

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A revealing history of the RSS and its long campaign to reshape India’s understanding of history, nationalism and Gandhi—right from the ideology behind his assassination to the rewriting of school textbooks.