Publishing & Rights in India: HarperCollins is set to publish Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging in India on Nov 10 after a dispute with Penguin India over edits, turning a publishing decision into a high-profile legal-and-market fight. Book Culture & Social Issues: A new children’s picture book from Duckbill/BLUE tackles caste through story and emotion rather than a lecture, aiming to open space for conversations families often avoid. Literary Voices: Meena Kandasamy discusses writing as a calling, cancel culture, and the ethics of separating art from artists in a wide-ranging interview. Regional Publishing & Media: Japan’s student newspapers are pushing back as costs and staffing shortages squeeze campus reporting. China’s Cultural Memory: A report on Mao nostalgia in Henan’s “last Maoist village” shows how political memory is being reinterpreted as the economy slows. Books & Knowledge Access: Lanzhou’s digitisation project is bringing the Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Treasuries) into public view via an exhibition of selected images. Urdu & Bookshops: In Lucknow, an Urdu bookstore survives by relocating, reflecting how rising costs and shrinking margins are reshaping local literary life.