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Doctor Sahib and the Spook

PK Hormis Tharakan

The Kashmir story told through a politician and a spy

The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship

The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship

AS Dulat

The Elsewhereans /

The Elsewhereans

Jeet Thayil

The Constant Migrant

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil traces a family story across the globe in his new novel. The author speaks about movement and cities to

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia /

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

Sam Dalrymple

The Many Partitions

Bhavya Dore

Sam Dalrymple records how the Indian empire was unmade. The author in conversation with

The Woman who Ran AIIMS: The Memoirs of a Medical Pioneer /

The Woman who Ran AIIMS: The Memoirs of a Medical Pioneer

Sneh Bhargava

The First Woman to Head AIIMS Writes a Gripping Memoir

Ramani Atkuri

Dr Sneh Bhargava looks back on her storied life

How to Forget: A book of short steps and long walks /

How to Forget: A book of short steps and long walks

Meera Ganapathi

Meera Ganapathi Maps the Terrain of the Heart and Land

Nandini Nair

Walking to belong

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia /

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

Philippe Sands

The End of Immunity

Sudeep Paul

A lawyer-writer explains how Augusto Pinochet’s 1998 arrest in London changed international law even as he pursues the connection between the dictator and a notorious Nazi war criminal

The Moving of Mountains: The Remarkable Story of the Agastya International Foundation /

The Moving of Mountains: The Remarkable Story of the Agastya International Foundation

Adhirath Sethi

Classroom Revolution

Mohit Satyanand

Moving students from passive to active learning

Shape of an Apostrophe /

Shape of an Apostrophe

Uttama Kirit Patel

Ties that Bind

Bhavya Dore

A diasporic tale that examines motherhood

The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle /

The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle

Rana Preet Gill

A book that revives the memories of the ‘forgotten heroes’ of the Ghadar Movement

Shaan Kashyap

Rana Preet Gill’s work offers a wealth of detail—material that an alert reader might well shape into probing questions

White Lillies: An Essay on Grief /

White Lillies: An Essay on Grief

Vidya Krishnan

Mosaic of Mourning

Sudha G Tilak

Journalism meets poetry to map grief’s terrain

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