British science fiction does not have a fixation on spectacle alone. Where many other sci-fi traditions are focused on achieving maximum scale (the biggest explosions), British science fiction has a focus that is inwardly directed—psychology, ethics, social dislocation, and underlying dread. The strength of British science fiction is not found in its world-ending explosions; it is found in the implications of its stories. The unsettling psychological states depicted in works

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale written in 1985 is not just another dystopian novel; it is a chilling tale on power, gender, and the fragility of rights. The novel presents a theocratic society in which Gilead rules over an American future that experiences environmental destruction and declining birth rates and thus starts to oppress women. The book remains disturbingly relevant even today, almost four decades after its publication. Table of Contents: The Story Themes

If you were born between 1990 and 2010, chances are that one of your earliest childhood memories was walking through your school gates to see the playground decked in red banners, steel bookshelves and tables covered in books. The Scholastic Book Fair was a carnival of sorts that we all would wait for all year long. Table of Contents: The Nostalgia How Scholastic Built Its Children’s Publishing Strategy Why the Scholastic Book Fair Model Works Why Schools Continue to Choose

If you were a teenager in the 2010s, there is a good chance that your earliest relationship with writing did not begin at a desk. It may have begun on a glowing phone screen at midnight, while you hid under your blanket so your parents couldn’t catch you. Wattpad was the place where readers turned into writers overnight and where young adult fiction became a phenomenon with its own culture and energy. For almost fifteen years, Wattpad was more than just a website: it was a me

Chetan Bhagat has not always been, what you would call, a clean-slate author. An IIT & IIM graduate, Bhagat often finds himself at the centre of memes and public criticism. Be it his debut novel Five Point Someone, or the highly debated One Indian Girl, he has always made it to the headlines for both positive and negative reasons. His latest novel 12 Years: My Messed Up Love Story has already garnered a lot of attention and has led up to more debates than he would have liked

The Jaipur Literature Festival promises to add a touch of literary magic to the already magical Pink City of Jaipur. Every year, this literary festival witnesses footfall in lakhs; and in 2026, JLF returns to the city for its 19th edition, at a time when it is most needed, as technology is disrupting creativity, public attention spans are waning, and all of us are struggling to make sense of what it means to be human in an increasingly digitized world. From humble beginnings