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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat completed 100 episodes earlier this year. A new book, Igniting Collective Goodness: MannKiBaat@100, explores how it has been integrating India and transforming it socially

Igniting Collective Goodness: MannKiBaat@100

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The Running Grave

Robert Galbraith

Innocence versus Evil

Shylashri Shankar

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott infiltrate a religious cult and realise the limits of free will

The Indian Cat: Stories, Paintings, Poetry & Proverbs

BN Goswamy

Cat-alogue

Nandini Nair

A cultural portrait of the Indian cat

The Colonial Constitution: An Origin Story

Arghya Sengupta

Origin Story

Siddharth Singh

A recent book asks if India needs a new constitution

Won’t You Stay Radhika?

Usha Priyamvada | Translated by Daisy Rockwell

Lost at Home

Kinshuk Gupta

A landmark Hindi novel of the 1960s, now translated into English, tells of a woman caught between individual freedom and social obligation

The Best Possible Experience: Stories

Nishanth Injam

Home Truths

Madhulika Liddle

Stories on the best and worst of life

The Less you Preach the More you Know: Aphorisms for Our Age

Shashi Tharoor and Joseph Zacharias | Illustrations by Priya Kuriyan

Shashi Tharoor: Word Class

Nandini Nair

Shashi Tharoor’s new book is a collection of aphorisms. The author and politician speaks about the art of provocation to

Tall Tales by a Small Dog

Omair Ahmad

Dog Days

Manik Sharma

Stories from Gorakhpur where fact and fiction merge

Echoes from Forgotten Mountains: Tibet in War and Peace

Jamyang Norbu

Jamyang Norbu: Memory Keeper

Lhendup G Bhutia

Jamyang Norbu’s new book is part memoir and part history of modern Tibet. The former guerrilla speaks about how he got swept into the resistance movement, offending the Dalai Lama, and the challenges of telling the truth