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Roots of the Raga

Abhilasha Ojha

The living traditions of Hindustani classical music

The Call of Music: 8 Stories of Hindustani Musicians

The Call of Music: 8 Stories of Hindustani Musicians

Priya Purushothaman

All Fours /

All Fours

Miranda July

An Erotic Novel Spotlights Perimenopause

Nandini Nair

Miranda July’s All Fours is celebrated by some and reviled by others

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory /

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

Jagadish Shukla

Predicting the Rain

Anoop Mahajan

A meteorologist maps how monsoon forecasting was revolutionised

The Fantastic Affair of Despair /

The Fantastic Affair of Despair

Doorva Devarshi

Call of the Leopard

Madhulika Liddle

An unreal tale of women in post-Independent India

The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship /

The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship

AS Dulat

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

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

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