NEW DELHI: Acclaimed author and Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty’s beloved short story How I Taught My Grandmother to Read will be brought to life on stage in the national capital on July 13. The Hindi adaptation, titled K se Kahani, is presented by Delhi-based theatre collective Storee Ki Boree and will be staged at the LTG Auditorium.

Directed by Munish Sha...

What can one learn or realise in a minute? Even the Instagram reels we mindlessly scroll through often last longer than that. But One Minute Wisdom by Debashis Chatterjee shows us the quiet power of a single minute. We all have our moments of realisation, profound truths, or even bursts of insight. One Minute Wisdom is a thoughtful, concise collection of such light-bulb momen...

Most writers, even excellent writers, know how to start a book. Often, even the best of them don’t know how to end it. Pulling off a jolly good tale that doesn’t sag in the middle like a baniya in tales of the Raj is as challenging as young Kim’s journey to the Himalayas in the Great Game to ferret out Russian spies. Stephen Alter’s The Greatest Game is his story of Kimball ‘...

This novella is a 13-day story from start to finish. In this day and age, who has more time than that to deal with death and liberation? To the author, ‘A city has its language. It is not the language the people of the city speak.’ So how does one write in the mother tongue of the city? It is in no way the mother tongue of the writer. Neither is it Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, o...

NEW DELHI: From a boy spinning wild tales about the scar on his lip, to a girl avoiding photos because of her "different smile", and another story exploring a wide range of unique smiles, a new children's book series uses creative storytelling to build empathy and spark open conversations about identity and self-worth.

Published by Smile Train India, a leading cleft-foc...