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Nandini Nair

A banquet hosted by Prince Ghulam Muhammad Ali Khan, the fifth prince of Arcot
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The King’s Meal

A lavish culinary journey with the subcontinent’s royal families

15 February 2017
Roberto Calasso is an Italian writer and publisher who speaks seven languages. He taught himself Sanskrit (left); Amruta Patil’s recent graphic novel Adi Parva is based on the Mahabharata and the Puranas
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JLF 2017: Wordscapes

We present the faces that launched a million stories from the JLF 2017's tenth edition. Photographs by Rohit Chawla

24 January 2017
Girls enjoying a day out at Caffé Palladio, Jaipur
Dispatch
Jaipur Cool: Pink Panache

Heritage meets swank to create a new Jaipur chic—and it’s not just about a literary festival

18 January 2017
Janhavi Prasada
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The Man behind the Mahatma

A retelling of the Gandhi story for the young

18 January 2017
Pada Murmu teaches Santal children in Ghosaldanga
Dispatch
Santali: Talking Time

Two tribal villages in Bengal revive the Santali language

11 January 2017
Sexual Cleansing
Society
Sexual Cleansing

An online community of the young declares war on pornography

04 January 2017
The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius by Eugène Delacroix; the Roman emperor was a practitioner of Stoicism
New Year Double Issue
In Praise of Stoicism

Surviving the age of anxiety

21 December 2016
Books: Highlights of 2017
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Books: Highlights of 2017

Adrian Levy & Cathrine Scott-Clark | Wendy Doniger | Michel Pastoureau | Pankaj Mishra | Arundhati Roy | Paula Hawkins | Paul Auster | Hari Kunzru | Amit Chaudhuri | George Saunders | JRR Tolkien

17 December 2016
Books: Best of 2016
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Books: Best of 2016

From the architecture of the gene to the oral histories of men and women in the former USSR, this year’s best books reveal what it is to be human

14 December 2016
Zadie Smith
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Dancing with Zadie Smith

Family, friendship and identity—one of English fiction’s most celebrated young writers returns to familiar turf

30 November 2016

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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