Journalist Sanjay Suri has been awarded the National Film Award 2019 for his book “A Gandhian Affair: India's Curious Portrayal of Love in Cinema.” His book competed with 24 other nominations to win the award. The 67th National Film Awards for...
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4th Aug 2026 | Updated at 07:21am 4th Aug 2026
The Great Game: Blends detective fiction with India’s hidden history
Arvind Ethan David, author of The Great Game, was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and educated in the UK, where his passion for creative writing began. A law graduate from the University of Oxford, Arvind found his true calling in theatre before...
“Books help children talk meaningfully about their background”
The judging panel for the inaugural Children’s Booker Prize 2027, supported by the AKO Foundation, has been announced as submissions open for publishers and a nationwide search begins for three child judges aged 8 to 12.The new annual award...
Hachette network for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees Thrive launched the fiction development programme in partnership with David Higham Associates, The Future Bookshelf, Spread the Word and Hachette UK’s adult trade divisions.
Eminent British historian William Dalrymple’s son Sam will examine and chronicle the five partitions in Asia. Expected to publish in 2022, his book ‘Five Partitions: The Making of Modern Asia’ promises an important corrective to the history...
On Monday, 28th December, best-selling author Amish Tripathi launched his second non-fiction book titled "Dharma: Decoding the Epics for A Meaningful Life". The book offers practical, philosophical lessons drawn from ancient Hindu epics and...
After losing out on over a year’s worth of events, a determined Leicester-based planner decided to use lockdown to her advantage, by writing and publishing her first book.
Koolfi Club magazine, founded during the Covid pandemic by a mum-of-three living in North London, hopes to address the lack of minority representation in children’s publishing.
The British Indian Jewish Association held its fifth 'Bagels and Samosas' webinar on Thursday 26 November with guest speaker Sathnam Sanghera. He was interviewed by committee member Natalie Joseph about his career and his new book 'Empireland'...
Indian diaspora in the UK has raised concerns against a GCSE religious studies workbook which called Hindus ‘terrorists’ trying to protect their beliefs. The publisher withdrew the book titled ‘GCSE Religious Studies: Religion, Peace and Conflict’,...
The HarperCollins Traineeship, set up to help address underrepresentation in HarperCollins and in the wider publishing industry, is open for applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates for the fifth year running. Applications...
Women in engineering are seldom heard about within South Asian families. Women as mechanical engineers further tend to raise eyebrows among the community. But, Dr. Shini Somara is determined to break all stigma and prejudice associated with...
