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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

The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle

The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle

Rana Preet Gill

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

The Second Book of Prophets /

The Second Book of Prophets

Benyamin | Translated from Malayalam by Ministhy S

The Early Revolutionary

Rohit Chakraborty

Malayalam writer Benyamin retells the life and times of Jesus Christ in a secular way

Gandhi: The End of Non-Violence /

Gandhi: The End of Non-Violence

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

How non-violent was Gandhi?

Shaan Kashyap

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s new book on the final phase of Gandhi’s life can be read in many ways. While it inspires, it also calls for greater pragmatism in the writing of history

The Bird, a Bone, and Other Witnesses of a Museum Fire /

The Bird, a Bone, and Other Witnesses of a Museum Fire

Sahil Naik

An Art Book Documents the Losses of Museum Fires

Nandini Nair

Sahil Naik traces the journeys of lost artefacts

Learning to Make Tea for One /

Learning to Make Tea for One

Andaleeb Wajid

Journey through Grief

Chintan Girish Modi

A memoir on memory and mortality, love and loss

All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India /

All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India

Arundhati Ghosh

Love All

Rush Mukherjee

Navigating the challenges and possibilities of open relationships

Shamans of the Himalayas /

Shamans of the Himalayas

Anu Malhotra

Himalayan Wonder

Aditya Mani Jha

Anu Malhotra finds a very contemporary story in the life and traditions of the shamans

Indira Gandhi and the Years That Transformed India /

Indira Gandhi and the Years That Transformed India

Srinath Raghavan

Indira’s India

Siddharth Singh

Understanding the volatility of her prime ministership

The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment /

The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment

Swapna Kona Nayudu

Non-Aligned India

TCA Raghavan

Three seminal chapters in diplomatic history

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