“Food should bring pleasure, connection and nourishment”

In Good Taste: What Shapes What We Eat and Drink—and Why It Matters by Mallika Basu, launching 22 January 2026, is an accessible guide to the food system. It explores how our food is shaped by power, inequality and environmental impact, and...

Freebourne blends futuristic tech with a gripping murder mystery

Set in a near-future English town, ‘Freebourne’ is a speculative murder mystery that fuses a tense thriller with profound questions about free will and the rapid advance of technology. It will be published by Roundfire Books, the fiction imprint...

The Spirit of Mahatma, a book by Dr Rizwan Kadri, gives a new dimension to the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his private secretary Mahadev Desai, who was like a son to him

Dr Rizwan Kadri is a young historian known for his research on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Dr Kadri is currently working as an Associate Professor in Shree Swaminarayan Arts College, Ahmedabad.



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