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- Audiobooks, Awards and prizes, Books, Buddhism, China, Culture, Dalai Lama, Grammy awards 2026, Grammys, Music, Music industry, Religion, Tibet, World news
Beijing condemns Dalai Lama’s Grammy win as ‘anti-China political manipulation’
Buddhist spiritual leader wins best audiobook and says he sees win ‘as a recognition of our shared universal r…
- Books, Culture, Food, Food and drink books, Intellectual property, Law, Middle East and North Africa, Publishing, South and Central Asia, UK news
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial gra…
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Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs
Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligen…
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William Dalrymple: ‘If I ever want to show off to a nephew, I tell them about being shot at’
The historian on being stunned silent by Mick Jagger, his favourite sandwich filling and the seventh century I…
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‘Take that risk’: the New Zealand teen author named one of Time magazine’s girls of the year
Rutendo Shadaya, who wrote a series of children’s fantasy books featuring strong female leads, has been recogn…
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‘Once again, the west turns away’: a new book recounts the fall and rise of the Taliban
Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson’s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan fro…
- Arundhati Roy, Books, Censorship, Culture, Freedom of speech, India, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, South and Central Asia, World news
Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir
Censorship order accuses books of promoting ‘false narrative and secessionism’ in disputed territoryThe govern…
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Lord Desai obituary
Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and hist…
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Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple review – the many partitions of southern Asia
A deeply researched history that examines colonial and post-colonial faultlines, from Aden to MyanmarEarlier t…
- Asia Pacific, Books, Culture, History books, Japan, Nuclear weapons, Science, Second world war, US military, Weapons technology
‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who c…
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Patricia Herbert obituary
From 1975 until 1998, my mother-in-law, Patricia Herbert, who has died aged 81, was the south-east Asia curato…
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Qiu Xigui obituary
Paleographer, historian and expert on ancient Chinese writingQiu Xigui, who has died aged 89, first made his m…
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Jai Verma obituary
My friend Jai Verma, who has died aged 75, was a poet, a writer and cross-cultural organiser who served as a b…
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Holiday bookings to Japan are down – could a 90s manga comic’s earthquake prediction be to blame?
The Future I Saw, a Japanese graphic novel by Ryo Tatsuki, declared a major disaster would occur on 5 July 202…
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Mao Zedong’s first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda
Rare early editions of book by communist party chairman, who shunned the idea of wealth, set to fetch £1m at a…