Books

Olivier Lafont, the French actor who played Suhas Tandon in 3 Idiots, launched his epic fantasy novel Warrior with Penguin India in late 2014.

A 2014 conversation with Koral Dasgupta, author of Power of a Common Man — on Shah Rukh Khan’s marketing genius, her research with 2,000 fans, and writing

Koral Dasgupta's Power of a Common Man uses Shah Rukh Khan as a case study in branding and consumer behaviour — an academic, Westland-published look at

The 'Chai, Chat with Books' club reviews Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn's devilish thriller of a marriage gone bad, deceit, and two narrators you can't trust.

Part 3 of a three-part interview with Amish Tripathi: the Upanishads, his favorite books, why Shiva, and the future after the Shiva trilogy.

Our Naperville book club took on Paula McLain's 'The Paris Wife' — Hemingway's first marriage, the burden of genius, and whether Hadley's voice should have

India's women crime writers — Kalpana Swaminathan, Madhulika Liddle, Swati Kaushal — on plotting murders, female detectives, and gender myths in fiction.

A Naperville book club takes on Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning 'The White Tiger' — and splits three ways over its brutal portrait of class and caste.

Naperville's 'Chai, Chat with Books' club brings eight women together over chai and chaat to talk books. A diary note on why book clubs endure.

This book column looks at Lawrence Anthony's The Elephant Whisperer: a rogue elephant herd, a Zululand reserve, and a bond that crossed species.

Chai, Chat With Books is a small suburban book club of eight women who share a love of reading over tea, chaat, and lively conversation.

The 2012 Summer Writing Program in Naperville wraps up on July 26 — with the possibility of year-round lessons, and student work to be published.

Snigdha Nandipati's 2012 Scripps win on 'guetapens' made five straight Indian-American champions — and turned the spelling bee into a study of preparation

A proposal to barcode every human at birth resurfaced in the early 2010s. Privacy, religious, and pragmatic objections killed it — but the anxieties behind

No living writer knows censorship like Salman Rushdie. His decades-long argument: censorship protects the powerful, never the weak — and it has only

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novels map the interior lives of Indian and immigrant women — and much of their power lies in what her characters leave unsaid.

Bill Gates rendered in panels and speech bubbles — an Indian publisher's illustrated biography made the billionaire's story accessible to young readers.

Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.

An Ohio State study found preschoolers whose teachers pointed out letters and words during storybook reading read better one and two years later.