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Nandini Nair

Best of Books 2018: My Choice
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Best of Books 2018: My Choice

William Dalrymple | Tishani Doshi | Srinath Raghavan | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Arshia Sattar | Pratap Bhanu Mehta

20 December 2018
Henry Eliot
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Henry Eliot: ‘There is something comforting about the classics when you feel uncertain about your own time’

Editor and author Henry Eliot tells how literature expands our experience of what it means to be human

12 December 2018
Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama: Grace Over Guile

Michelle Obama’s memoir tells of an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey

21 November 2018
(from left) Sahradayi Modi; Sankaranarayanan Devarajan; Ranjeet Pratap Singh and Rahul Ranjan
Wealth Issue 2018
‘Think of Us as a YouTube for Stories’

Rahul Ranjan, Sankaranaryanan Devarajan, Sahradayi Modi and Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-founders, Pratilipi

01 November 2018
Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi
Cover Stories
Rage Against the Machine

Women are taking back some control by writing and telling their own stories. But let us not trivialise the struggle either

11 October 2018
At the end of the Round Table Conference in London, 1931
The Gandhi Issue
Simple Simplicity

The aesthetics of the austere

27 September 2018
The Dalai Lama in Dharamshala with the Dhauladhar Range
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Dalai Lama: Becoming A Mountain

Looking at the many moods of the Dalai Lama with Raghu Rai

20 September 2018
Mohammed Hanif
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Mohammed Hanif: ‘There is nothing left to satirise’

Mohammed Hanif’s new novel takes flight when a plane crashes. The author tells Nandini Nair why death is the only lover who does not betray her promise

19 September 2018
Parvathi Thampi with a  photograph of her grandfather  C Sankaran Nair
Descendants
Sir C Sankaran Nair: Lives and Letters

Former President of the Indian National Congress Sir C Sankaran Nair was one of the builders of modern India. His granddaughter carries forth his legacy in her own private and erudite way

09 August 2018
Benyamin at his hometown Kulanada
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Benyamin: The Smell of Jasmine

The Malayalam writer Benyamin returns to the Arab Spring for his new novel

01 August 2018

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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