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Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The firebrand Kannada writer, advocate and activist, Banu Mushtaq, whose collection of stories, Heart Lamp (Penguin), translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, has enriched the Kannada literary arena for decades with her stories about Muslim families with women characters who fight for … Read more

The prevalence of self-medication was 19.7%, associated with factors, such as staying alone, multiple comorbidities and recent hospitalisations. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images A cross-sectional study conducted among 600 older adults across six Indian cities has found that the prevalence of polypharmacy and unsafe self-medication is high in this … Read more

A person undertakes an early version of the polygraph test. | Photo Credit: US FBI A: A polygraph, also called a lie-detector test, is generally used during interrogation by police. The instrument works by recording physiological functions such as blood pressure, heartbeat, respiration and perspiration. A pneumograph tube is fastened around the person’s chest and … Read more

The story so far Even as the opposition BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) vociferously opposed it and called it an act of “political vendetta”, the Karnataka Legislative Assembly passed the Bangalore Palace (Utilisation and Regulation of Land) Bill, 2025, on March 6. It was passed in the Legislative Council on March 10. The legislation arises … Read more

An aerial view of Majestic. | Photo Credit: Sudhakara Jain The Majestic area — home to the Kempegowda Bus Station, Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna City railway station and Kempegowda Metro Station, all metres from each other — sees lakhs of passengers commute through it everyday. However, despite being a crucial transit hub, the lack of integration … Read more

Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images The death of an 18-year-old girl in Kannur reportedly following extreme dieting and subsequent medical complications, possibly due to an eating disorder, has brought the focus sharply to the serious physical and psychological issues faced by teenagers over weight gain and body image issues. … Read more

“It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in Being and Nothingness. It is as if he was reflecting on Arjuna’s confusion at the outset of the Kurukshetra war. “I am confused about my dharma, and am besieged with anxiety and faintheartedness,” Arjuna beseeches Krishna. But what exactly … Read more

For representative purposes. The story so far: Quick commerce’s initial utility was presented to under-lockdown customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the youngest avenue of digital shopping, having outlived its initial utility, stayed on to alter how people shop — particularly in urban India. How does quick commerce function? As a subclass of e-commerce, quick … Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Saturday (March 8, 2025) entered the university apartment of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian student activist who helped lead Columbia University’s student encampment movement, claiming they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney. Later in the day, the Department … Read more

Understanding how particles such as electrons travel vast distances in space or how they acquire ultra-high energy has been a long-standing puzzle in astrophysics. In fact, physicists’ picture of the manner of energy propagation in the universe is still not fully clear. On January 13, researchers with the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University … Read more