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Popular fictional works like Harry Potter will soon be officially part of the ICSE syllabus. (Photo: AP)

US school bans 'Harry Potter' series due to 'curses and spells'

The students of the school will no longer have access to the famed book series after they were banned and removed from...

3 Sept 2019 8:35 AM IST

Excerpts from an e-mail interview

Blending mythology with history and science

Over two years of writing and telling her the story, it developed into the book that was finally published as The...

21 Jan 2020 4:30 AM IST

Accidental Magic, By Keshava Guha HarperCollins, Rs 599.

Friends from Potterverse don't live up to promise

With a silver lightening bolt as the centrepiece of its glossy white cover, Accidental Magic begins with great promise.

12 Jan 2020 2:03 AM IST

Author JK Rowling. (www.jkrowling.com)

JK Rowling says she is survivor of sexual assault

Rowling says the trauma of those experiences formed some of her feelings about women's rights

12 Jun 2020 12:35 PM IST

JK Rowling says she will not bow down to critics over her transgender comments

JK Rowling says she will not bow down' to critics over her transgender...

Rowling published a lengthy post on her blog website Wednesday in response to the backlash and her concerns over new...

11 Jun 2020 1:39 PM IST

Its currently listed for Rs 16,999 (around USD 225), and will be available exclusively in India. (Photo: Instagram/oneplus_india)

OnePlus launches Harry Potter edition for its smartwatch

The watch comes in a box themed around the magical entryway to Diagon Alley

19 Oct 2021 8:59 AM IST

The official poster of Harry Potter: Return to Hogwarts. (Photo: Twitter/@TomFelton)

HBO Max drops trailer for 'Harry Potter' reunion

The trailer features the cast reminiscing about the movies, as well as festivities in the Great Hall

21 Dec 2021 9:13 AM IST

Childrens literature, if you can call Tolkien that, has been a go-to from whenever I stopped being a child, if that ever happens either. (By arrangement)

Ranjona Banerji | Freedom, as understood by escapists and readers

Those fables and fairy tales told to children follow similar patterns: that adults can be evil, you have to look out for...

16 May 2021 8:02 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Of flat earth' & science denial: New orthodoxy of...

The story goes that, true to his beliefs, as he left the court, he muttered to himself, or perhaps to his God if he...

26 Jun 2021 12:13 AM IST

Kerala is home to around 420 captive elephants, most of them unfit

Mammoth miseries

Hollywood actress Evanna Lynch's undercover expos© on the cruel treatment of captive elephants in Kerala triggers...

5 May 2018 12:16 AM IST

She explained that the blue and yellow are both sapphires, the red stone is a ruby, and the green is tsavorite. (Photo: Pixabay)

Harry Potter fan gets engagement ring featuring stones from all 4...

Engagement ring features a diamond, but also has small gemstones, in red, green, blue and yellow, each representing the...

16 Jun 2018 1:57 PM IST

The technology could one day be used to make objects invisible from every direction. (Youtube Screengrab)

Scientists step closer to developing Harry Potter-like invisibility...

The gadget, called a spectral cloak, even worked in bright daylight in tests.

29 Jun 2018 12:31 PM IST