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Sridhar Balan
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    The book is a virtual tour de force of book history, of legendary booksellers and pedlars, of marginalia and scribblings which have a history of their own, of comfort books, of book collectors and libraries, of bookselling histories even amidst adversity in Paris, Venice and England and, above all, of reading.Lifestyle
    That ‘Aladdin’s cave’ feeling

    The book is a testament to the power and to the joy of reading

    31 Jan 2021 12:13 AM IST

    Finding former governor a homeLifestyle
    Finding former governor a home

    A number of these issues have been highlighted in Y.V. Reddy’s recent book, Indian Fiscal Federalism.

    27 July 2019 3:20 AM IST

    Rightfully, English is not only an international language now but people of other countries in the Commonwealth and elsewhere have adopted it as their official language.Lifestyle
    How the OED became ubiquitous in Indian homes

    This is where the vocabulary dictionaries score over them as they have more number of headwords.

    23 Feb 2019 2:57 AM IST

    Inside the Kabul Public LibraryLifestyle
    A library can be a boon for Afghanistan's children

    The history of imperial conquests shows that one of the first places of attack of the invading Army is the library.

    13 Jan 2019 2:16 AM IST

    In referring to hot dogs, the term “dog” is a reference to the sausage but not to its contentsLifestyle
    No more flogging a dead horse

    In the popular television series, Better Call Saul, Saul Goodman often has his client meetings outside a popular hot dog...

    15 Dec 2018 8:31 AM IST

    Journalist-turned-childrens author Shabnam Minwallas What Maya Saw (Harper Collins, 2017) is one among the three shortlisted under the Young Adult Books category. (Representional Image)Opinion
    Book hand-sellers are as rare as ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas'

    Lynne bemoaned that hand-sellers were as rare nowadays as the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas .

    16 Nov 2018 2:25 AM IST

    Emile Victor RieuLifestyle
    When a cow turns into a rakshak'

    He was a scholar and academic trained in the classics.

    31 Aug 2018 5:51 AM IST

    The traditional language books which will have poetry, prose and grammar in a separate order, subject experts and curriculum committee have designed new Tamil and English books.Lifestyle
    Meanwhile: Fikry, an eccentric bookseller and a doting father

    Fikry is 38, a widower having lost his wife in a car accident two years ago.

    6 July 2018 6:45 AM IST

    Bezos believed that the print book had existed for far too long ever since Gutenberg had invented movable type and thereby mechanised printing in the 1450s.Lifestyle
    It's important to nurture and endure reading habit

    Reading from a print format helps develop imagination and conjure visions in the mind.

    9 Jun 2018 3:26 AM IST

    Shashi TharoorOpinion
    Whatever happened to plain, simple English?

    Sometimes even the dictionary could prove inadequate.

    25 May 2018 5:03 AM IST

    William Shakespeare (Photo: AP)Lifestyle
    Workers' plight akin to Shakespeare's tragdies

    When Shakespeare died in 1616, 18 of his plays, among them the more famous Shakespeare tragedies died with him.

    30 March 2018 3:33 AM IST

    Textbooks for secondary classes to have colourful images and age-appropriate fonts.Lifestyle
    With everything recorded in books, what happens to memory?

    The art of writing was discovered initially in Mesopotamia and then in Egypt.

    29 Dec 2017 2:20 AM IST

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