From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom

What does Islam mean to Indians, Muslim and non-Muslim

An account of a proud Indian Muslim who occupied the highest offices

Being and belonging according to Shashi Tharoor

The topical reverberations of Ira Mukhoty’s biography of the great Mughal

A magisterial survey of India’s volatile growth story

AK Bhattacharya | Bhaichand Patel | Krishna Sarma, Savitha Suri and Shaheen Desai

What’s it like being a Muslim in today’s India? Salman Khurshid takes a personal journey with a political message

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy

Basking in the hospitality of Pakistan, remembering the thrill of the liberation of Bangladesh, and trying to be a good guest of Sri Lanka

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…