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Amitava Kumar: Seeking Truth Between the Lines

Antara Raghavan

Amitava Kumar’s latest novel challenges fake news and the form of the novel. The author in conversation with Antara Raghavan

A Time Outside this Time

A Time Outside this Time

Amitava Kumar

Where the Gods Dwell: Thirteen Temples and Their Hi(Stories) /

Where the Gods Dwell: Thirteen Temples and Their Hi(Stories)

Siddhartha Sarma

The Womb of the Earth

Siddhartha Sarma

Water and blood, creation and death, at the Kamakhya temple

Actually... I Met Them /

Actually... I Met Them

Gulzar

The Gulzar-verse

A cultural icon remembers the richness of his relationships

Funeral Nights /

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Feast of the Dead

Blurring the boundaries between the real and the surreal in Meghalaya

The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination /

The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination

Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju

Who and Why?

Rajshree Chandra

The players, plots and the movement that led to Gandhi’s murder

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis /

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh: The Forecaster

Amitav Ghosh’s new book is a parable for a planet in crisis. He speaks to Nandini Nair about the cruelties of colonialism and the violent trajectory of the nutmeg

Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor /

Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor

The Literary Journeys of Shashi Tharoor

Mind in motion

The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non Western Worldview /

The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non Western Worldview

Ram Madhav

Dharmocracy: Hindutva and Democracy

Deen Dayal Upadhyay gave democracy an indigenous foundation

An Economic History of India 1707-1857 /

An Economic History of India 1707-1857

Tirthankar Roy

The Birth of Modern India

Nationalist tropes and imperial assumptions miss the Raj’s real economic impact

Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History /

Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History

Martyn Rix

Floral Folios

A cultural canvas for Indian plants

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