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Library says decision to defer workshops not based on ‘political beliefs or identity of anyone involved’

She’s looked after teenagers, rape survivors and trafficked sex workers – and assisted at terminations while she’s been pregnant herself. Still, she wouldn’t change her job for anything.

Sriram Devatha still remembers how Naveen Pishe, of P.N. Rao Fine Suits fame, suddenly asked him to stand up and put his legs together, mid-conversation. “He (Pishe) told me that I was not bowlegged... that 90% of this country is,” says Devatha, the author of Brandgaluru-Made in Bengaluru, a book…

Other lives: Historian and author who liked to research everyday lives and unsung organisations

The DC Pride 2024 special is just the beginning of this year's releases

Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, The Wren and Observer art critic Laura Cumming wins non-fiction with Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death

"More than anything, I believe he would want others to know they are capable of great things," Alexander's friend Christopher Ulmer told NPR.

Kate Manne tried to shrink her body for years before embracing her size as part of a "natural, normal human variation." She says the fight against fat phobia must start in the doctor's office.

The US theorist and activist, who has been falsely accused of denying the importance of sex, makes a plangent appeal for gender diversity

The follow-up to The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P is a coruscating portrait of low-wage work in an American big-box store

Earl Charles Spencer has revealed the one thing Diana was 'terrified' of in childhood - and many will relate