Girish Shukla

AI can summarise books in seconds, but what happens to reading when machines increasingly stand between the reader and the author's ideas?, Books, Times Now

Sequels are reshaping publishing as familiar worlds, trusted characters and built-in audiences become increasingly valuable to publishers., Books, Times Now

An Anthropic researcher quit this week, warning AI could kill everyone by 2030, and his own bosses agreed. He joins a chorus of the very people who built the technology.

Dave Eggers’ 'The Circle' imagined a world where privacy became suspicious, offering a chilling warning about surveillance and digital life., Books, Times Now

Salman Rushdie will receive the 2026 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, joining a rare circle of literary giants too., Books, Times Now

Eleven leaders meet at Bharat Mandapam this week. The word that brought them there was coined in a Goldman Sachs note in November 2001., Books, Times Now

Twenty-five years on, the lasting change from September 2001 was not in what novelists wrote. It was in what audiences began demanding., Books, Times Now

Two library books borrowed in 1910 have returned 116 years late, still in excellent condition, bringing a remarkable family story with them., Books, Times Now

A psychologist ran a routine replication and found something nobody was looking for. Fourteen years of recordings, 2,200 people, and a steady disappearance of the words we say aloud.

Haynes gives myth its teeth back, turning Medusa, Jocasta and Medea into unsettling reminders that old stories were never entirely harmless., Books, Times Now