The book's timing and ambition, even after the recent disappointment of the same-sex unions verdict in the Supreme Court in October, is significant.(Representational image. Credit: AFP) The eminent ...

Though the term “Hindi pop fiction” is often used pejoratively, the genre itself is suffused with pathos and features stories that youthful readers enjoy. Nilotpal Mrinal’s debut novel, Dark Horse, ...

किमाम सी काली रात। कोहरा ऐसा जैसे कि सी ने रात पर सफ़ेद चूना मल दि या हो। टैम्प रेचर इस क़ दर सर्द कि ...

In the latest 12-page catalogue of Ravi Pocket Books, novels barely stretch to the third page. The rest of the pages are full of general, technical, and religious books. Among the first and the ...

The new year is here, and January 2026 is already shaping up to be exciting for Hindi web series fans. From reality shows ...

There was a time when crime ruled the roost in Hindi fiction, but that time is long gone. Ibn-e-Safi, Ved Prakash Kamboj, Col Bedi, Ved Prakash Sharma, and Surendra Mohan Pathak were, collectively, an ...

An American publishing house hasn't released a book by a living Hindi novelist in a generation-but Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark plan to change that. Grunebaum, a Senior Lecturer in South Asian ...

I faced multiple vantage points when I began writing on ‘Navlekhan Visheshank’ of the Hindi journal Vanmali Katha, a special issue dedicated to short fiction by young writers. The wonderful issue ...

Finally a show about Mumbai's diverse youth which does not just care about college romances and heartbreak. Bring On The Night, on MTV, offers much more When was the last time you found yourself ...

Besides Pathak, a few prominent names in the genre—Ibn-e-Safi, Om Prakash Sharma, Gulshan Nanda, Ved Prakash Sharma—penned stories for the masses. In the narrow lanes of Nai Sarak, which lies cramped ...

(MENAFN- IANS)New Delhi, July 11 (IANSlife) With more time in hand due to altered work routines, people worldwide are displaying an increase in reading habits, causing publishers to innovate to fulfil ...