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is delighted to announce the first in the Good Indian Child’s Guide Series The Good Indian Child’s Guide To Eating Mangoes by Natasha Sharma The perfect preface to the mango season. ‘Drool-inducing! Rib-tickling! Timely! Generations of Indian children will benefit from this prof-BURR…RRP! (Excuse me, it’s mango season.)’  – Anushka Ravishankar,

HarperCollins India to publish ‘Weird Maths’ by child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor David Darling. Agnijo will be in India in July to promote the book. Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond written by Agnijo Banerjee, a child prodigy of Indian origin and his tutor David

WHY NOW? ‘Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.’ NAOMI KLEIN   Our current way of doing things – the ‘me culture’ – isn’t working. The world we all share is more divided and unequal than ever. Rates of anxiety, depression

In Spotlight, we interview people who’ve popularized books on different social media platforms. With irresistible pictures, intelligent conversations and book recommendations, these bibliophile social media masters are the best kind of influencers. Today we’re in conversation with Resh Susan, whose Instagram handle The Book Satchel has nearly 30,000 followers. She

In your own town or village, everyone already knows your caste; there is no escaping it. But how do people know your caste when you go elsewhere, to a place where no one knows you? There they will ask you, “What caste are you?” You cannot avoid this question. And you cannot refuse to answer. By tradition, everyone has the right to know. If you are educated like me, if you don’t seem like a typical untouchable, then you have a choice. You can tell the truth and be ostracized, ridiculed, harassed—even driven to suicide, as happens regularly in universities.