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A Writer and the Art of Memory

Urvashi Bahuguna

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi writes a succinct meditation on old age and death and the doors it opens for those left behind

Loss

Loss

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Kintsugi /

Kintsugi

Anukrti Upadhyay

The Art of Repair

Fehmida Zakeer

A novel that echoes with loneliness, loss, longing, and unfulfilled promises

Twilight in a Knotted World /

Twilight in a Knotted World

Siddhartha Sarma

A Thugee Life

Praveena Shivram

On the trail of a most notorious gang of stranglers

Turmeric Nation: A Passage Through India’s Tastes /

Turmeric Nation: A Passage Through India’s Tastes

Shylashri Shankar

Delicious Diversity

Lathika George

Shylashri Shankar captures the Indian culinary identity in all its complexity and multiplicity

Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers /

Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers

Stephen Alter

Wild at Heart

Ranjit Lal

Stephen Alter reimagines Mowgli

Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics /

Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics

Dominic DP Johnson

Fittest of Them All

Siddharth Singh

Can evolutionary biology explain conflict between countries?

The Book of Indian Essays: Two Hundred Years of English Prose /

The Book of Indian Essays: Two Hundred Years of English Prose

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: Words Of A Vanished World

Nandini Nair

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra tells Nandini Nair about India’s changing relationship with English and the essays that will last and those that will not

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State /

The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

Declan Walsh

Declan Walsh: It’s Too Easy to Blame Zia for It All

Sudeep Paul

In conversation with Declan Walsh, author and journalist

Bride of the Forest: The Untold Story of Yayati’s Daughter /

Bride of the Forest: The Untold Story of Yayati’s Daughter

Madhavi Mahadevan

Woman to the Rescue

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

A modern retelling of an epic search for immortality

Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist /

Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist

Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring

Bruce Wannell: Ode to an Orientalist

William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple celebrates the wisdom and spirit of his friend—Bruce Wannell—a linguist and musician, translator and teacher

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