Shyam Benegal (1934-2024): The conscience keeper of Indian cinema scroll.in/reel/1076975/s… via The Reel

In the Philippines, advanced AI tools – including those with language recognition, emotion recognition, and generative intelligence – have made work more demanding, workers and representative from a BPO worker’s association told Rest of World scroll.in/article/107637…

Appreciation post for prime video IN for dropping some really fine films over the last few months. Here's hoping that they continue to showcase indies/hidden gems and festival favorites, apart from the usual star studded stuff.

India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories bbc.in/42DpBWH

Come visit this fragrant, beautiful, and calm oasis jaipurlitfest - The Reading Nook by Murty Classics. Discover Ten Indian Classics, the entire Murty Classics series, enjoy a cup of tea or guavas (our favorite fruit this winter), and let’s chat about books. Harvard University Press

It’s a huge honour to have Editrix featured in Publishers Weekly. Extremely grateful to Edward Nawotka for sharing our story!

Exciting news: A 2K restored version of Satyajit Ray's 'Nayak', starring Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore, will be released on Feb 21 in Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune,  Hyderabad & Chennai. (A piece I wrote to mark 50 years of the film: scroll.in/reel/802007/fi…)

The 2025-2026 Fellows: Dan Bouk, Vajra Chandrasekera, Brad Fox, M. Leona Godin, Gregg Hecimovich, Colin Jones, Aparna Kapadia, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Jordan Kisner, Katie Kitamura, Raven Leilani, David Mills, Benjamin Moser, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Krithika Varagur

Yessssss! Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq win the 2025 International Booker Prize 2022 as translator and writer, respectively, of 'Heart Lamp', a collection of stories originally written in Kannada. The Booker Prizes Kanishka Gupta And Other Stories Penguin India

Befuddled Magnus Carlsen Bested By Dreaded Checkmate Gambit theonion.com/befuddled-magn…

Finally, a bit of my own publishing. Chowringhee Press. I’ll be publishing Indian translations for readers outside India. The first one has just come out. To get a copy anywhere in the USA (or elsewhere outside India), please use the link below. Thank you! chowringheepress.stck.me/.../Tagore-s-L…

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The first buyers are getting their copies. Yours are just waiting to be ordered chowringheepress.com/book/1057396/T…

Friends in the US and UK, this special edition of #RabindranathTagore’s very last novel, The Laboratory, in English translation is now being delivered to buyers in New York and Toronto, London and San Francisco. Order your copy here chowringheepress.stck.me/book/1057396/T…

Americans writers mass-panicked about AI causing a job apocalypse for new graduates. There's just one problem: There WAS no job apocalypse. The data was cherry-picked. noahpinion.blog/p/stop-pretend…

This weekend we'll be announcing a new series of books that Chowringhee Press will be publishing over this year and next. Follow us here so you don't miss our posts (and, of course, books). chowringheepress.com

ANNOUNCING! A landmark new series from Chowringhee Press. Interviews with 100 translators around the world, working in and out of 60 different languages. In 5 volumes. We’ll be publishing the Harshaneeyam Podcast conversations with translators on their work and their craft this year

Every month, in Scroll.in I'll unearth lost or forgotten books from the distant and not so distant past. This month, the blood and thunder stories by Louisa May Alcott. scroll.in/article/108411…

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FHF goes to the Venice Film Festival (La Biennale di Venezia) for the world premiere of the restoration of Bimal Roy’s classic “Do Bigha Zamin”! The film will be screening on September 4 at 02:30 pm at Sala Corinto and on September 5 at 02:30 pm at Astra 1.