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Many Indias

Somak Ghoshal

From the early masters to contemporary stars

The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told: Fifty Masterpieces from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told: Fifty Masterpieces from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Edited by Arunava Sinha

Centres of Power: My Years In the Prime Minister’s Office and Security Council /

Centres of Power: My Years In the Prime Minister’s Office and Security Council

Chinmaya R Gharekhan

Reminiscences of a Bureaucrat

Madhavankutty Pillai

An officer under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi shares an insider account

Tree & Serpent /

John Guy

The Buddha at Home

John Guy brings together more than 125 objects about the origins of Buddhism in his new book and a recent exhibition

The Indians: Histories of a Civilisation /

The Indians: Histories of a Civilisation

Edited by GN Devy, Tony Joseph and Ravi Korisettar

History as Palimpsest

Over one hundred scholars map the origins and evolution of India

Assassin /

KR Meera | Translated from Malayalam by J Devika

KR Meera: Write and Subvert

KR Meera’s new novel opens with an attempted murder. The author speaks about the trigger of the plot, the pains of writing and the importance of truth telling

Water in a Broken Pot: A Memoir /

Water in a Broken Pot: A Memoir

Yogesh Maitreya

Finding Home

The memoir of a Dalit writer on alienation, deprivation and reconciliation

Empire Building: The Construction of British India, 1690-1860 /

Empire Building: The Construction of British India, 1690-1860

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

The English Track Record

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

A traveller’s tale from colonial India

Quarterlife /

Devika Rege

Matters of the Mind

Madhulika Liddle

The novel as a character study of the country

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey through Opium’s Hidden Histories /

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey through Opium’s Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

‘This idea of progress is one of the most terrible myths,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh talks about his new book that charts the transformative effect of the poppy on the making of the world in a conversation with

Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink /

Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink

Arati Kumar-Rao

Ear to the Ground

An environmentalist charts the stories of India’s vulnerable lands

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