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The Last Runner

Shail Desai

How a broken beast won hearts and races

Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion

Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion

Christopher McDougall

The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India /

The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India

Supriya Gandhi

The Philosopher Who Would Be King

Siddharth Singh

It is hard not to think that India would have been a very different country under Dara Shukoh

From Oberoi to Oyo: Behind the Scenes with the Movers and Shakers of India’s Hotel Industry /

From Oberoi to Oyo: Behind the Scenes with the Movers and Shakers of India’s Hotel Industry

Chitra Narayanan

Check In, Check Out

Demystifying the Indian hotel industry

Chats with the Dead /

Chats with the Dead

Shehan Karunatalika

From the Spectral Island

Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts

Low /

Jeet Thayil

The Art of Loss

A widower’s weekend of highs and lows in Bombay

The Lone Empress: A Portrait of Jayalalithaa /

The Lone Empress: A Portrait of Jayalalithaa

Vaasanthi

As Amma Lay Dying

Jayalalithaa was imperious even in her final hours

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables /

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

BR Ambedkar | Introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Edited and Annotated by Alex George and S. Anand

Politics of Meat

Rohit Chakraborty

Updating Ambedkar’s understanding of how untouchability came to be and what it has become today

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia /

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia

Riaz Dean

Maps and Mavericks

A well-rounded and engaging summary of how Imperial Russia and Great Britain tussled over Central Asia

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line /

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Deepa Anappara

Capital Saga

Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, set in a slum in metropolitan India, has the pace of a thriller and the heart of a children’s tale

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent /

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Priyamvada Gopal

The Colony Writes Back

A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists

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