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Romesh Gunesekera: An Island in Memory

Nandini Nair

In his new novel, Romesh Gunesekera writes of the ebb and flow of boyhood friendships. The novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

Suncatcher
Romesh Gunesekera
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World /
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World
Christopher Wylie
Harvesting Hate

An insider’s account of how a few smart men mined and manipulated data to con the world

 Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine  /
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Barry Strauss
Men who Ruled Rome

A fascinating history from Augustus to Constantine

A People’s History of Heaven /
A People’s History of Heaven
Mathangi Subramanian
Site of Rebellion

Struggles and sororities in a Bengaluru slum

Black Warrant /
Black Warrant
Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury
Lives and Deaths in Tihar

It’s India’s most fabled jail that housed the notorious and the respectable, and where some prisoners were more equal than others and some executions were stranger than what was reported. Startling revelations of a man who witnessed their lives and last moments

Serotonin /
Serotonin
Michel Houellebecq
Being and Nothingness

Michel Houellebecq: The novelist as the pathologist of Europe

Reel India: Cinema off the Beaten Track  /
Reel India: Cinema off the Beaten Track
Namrata Joshi
Cinemas of Resistance

Namrata Joshi writes a rich record of non-mainstream films in India

Sketches: The Memoir of an Artist /
Sketches: The Memoir of an Artist
KM Vasudevan Namboodiri | Translated by Gita Krishnankutty
The Illustrious Illustrator

The classic Namboodiri sketches

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