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An Istanbul Odyssey

Sudeep Paul

Turkish Ambassador Firat Sunel’s newly translated novel is a psychological thriller

Izmirli: My Last Love

Izmirli: My Last Love

Firat Sunel |Translated by Feyza Howell

Rising Sons /

Rising Sons

Kavery Nambisan

Human Bonds

Nachiket Joshi

Kavery Nambisan’s eighth novel, set in rural Karnataka one hundred years ago, tells of status and identity, loss and pursuit

No Place to Call My Own /

No Place to Call My Own

Alina Gufran

Longing and Ruin

Anjali Chauhan

A woman’s fraught journey towards self-discovery

Reimagining Jammu and Kashmir: A Pictorial Journey /

Reimagining Jammu and Kashmir: A Pictorial Journey

Ashish Sharma

Home Lost and Found

Ashish Sharma

Mapping a historic transition in Kashmir which embraces the new while retaining the ancient

Soumitra Chatterjee and His World /

Soumitra Chatterjee and His World

Sanghamitra Chakraborty

Bengal’s Leading Man

Shreevatsa Nevatia

Why Satyajit Ray’s favourite actor is special

Wild Fictions /

Wild Fictions

Amitav Ghosh

‘Fiction and Non-Fiction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Madhavankutty Pillai

Amitav Ghosh’s recent anthology of essays spotlights his three main themes—migration, environment and history. A conversation with the author

My Head for A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors /

My Head for A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors

Martin Goodman

Grassroot Warriors

Mukul Sharma

Lessons from a community renowned for its commitment to protect nature

Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations Into Modern Karnataka /

Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations Into Modern Karnataka

Srikar Raghavan

Cultural Memory

V Shoba

Excavating the Kannada intellectual history

From Jomo to Uhuru, Rao’s Nine Lives: Reminisces of the Courage, Power and Intrigues that Shaped Kenya’s Post-Colonial History /

From Jomo to Uhuru, Rao’s Nine Lives: Reminisces of the Courage, Power and Intrigues that Shaped Kenya’s Post-Colonial History

Sharad Rao

A True Pioneer

Krishnan Srinivasan

The rare Indian who rose high in the Kenyan civil service

Too Good to Be True /

Too Good to Be True

Prajakta Koli

Unbelievably True

Nandini Nair

How a debut author’s romance novel sold 1,50,000 copies within a month of its release

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