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Doctor Sahib and the Spook

PK Hormis Tharakan

The Kashmir story told through a politician and a spy

The Elsewhereans /
The Elsewhereans
Jeet Thayil
The Constant Migrant

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

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

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

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

Shape of an Apostrophe /
Shape of an Apostrophe
Uttama Kirit Patel
Ties that Bind

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

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

Journalism meets poetry to map grief’s terrain

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