The hindu on books newsletter Top fiction and non-fiction books of 2025, remembering Vinod Kumar Shukla and more ...

Professor P.R. Mukund and alumnus Ajay Pasupuleti traveled to India in November with precious cargo: two bound copies of the digitally restored Sarvamoola Grantha, a 700-year-old sacred Hindu text ...

Vijayesh Lal is general secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, the central network and service organization of evangelicals and Pentecostals in India, representing over 6,5000 churches ...

THE MYSTIC MASSEUR (215 pp.)—V.S. Naipaul—Vanguard ($3.50). In his two-story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When ...

THE RAMAYANA (276 pp.)—Aubrey Menen—Scribner ($3.50). The Ramayana is the closest thing in Hindu literature to Homer’s Odyssey. For centuries, young Hindus have been taught to revere its central ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The countdown has begun to the 14th edition of The Hindu Lit For Life 2026 to be held on January 17 and 18 at Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao ...

Controversy over books on Hinduism by religion scholar Wendy Doniger continues to grow. Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History, first published in 2009, was recalled and pulped by Penguin Books ...

American scholars of Hindu religion and culture say recent efforts in India to suppress the work of a prominent academic are having a chilling effect on their field. After years of fighting lawsuits ...

This month%2C publisher announced after four years of litigation%2C it was withdrawing %27The Hindus.%27 A Hindu fundamentalist group that opposes sex education in Indian schools filed the complaint.