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Devapriya Roy

Manu S Pillai chronicles historical characters against the amnesia of time

The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

Manu S Pillai

Quichotte /

Salman Rushdie

Rushdie’s Quest

S Prasannarajan

Cervantes gets a worthy successor

Plastic Emotions /

Plastic Emotions

Shiromi Pinto

The Missing Frame

Karthik Shankar

Shiromi Pinto’s new novel examines feminist icon and architect Minnette de Silva

Rivers Remember: The Shocking Truth of a Manmade Flood /

Rivers Remember: The Shocking Truth of a Manmade Flood

Krupa Ge

When a City Sinks

Urvashi Bahuguna

Chronicling Chennai’s flood and the many failures of multiple stakeholders to mitigate and respond to the disaster

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire /

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

East India Company: The Evil Empire

The White-Brown nexus comes alive in William Dalrymple’s compelling portrait of the East India Company

Superior: The Return of Race Science /

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Angela Saini

‘There is no biological basis to race’

Angela Saini dismantles notions of ethnicity and colour in her latest book. The author in conversation with Bhavya Dore

Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra Series— Book III) /

Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra Series— Book III)

Amish Tripathi

The Allure of the Anti-Hero

Gautam Chikermane

Amish Tripathi uses mythology to deliver modern lessons

Blue is Like Blue: Stories /

Blue is Like Blue: Stories

Vinod Kumar Shukla | Translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai

Strangely Familiar

Jai Arjun Singh

When the everyday seems like a hyper-real dream

Daura /

Anukrti Upadhyay

Heat and Dust

Stories that transform the harsh desert into a mystical world

Underland: A Deep Time Journey /

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane: The Life Below

Prerna Singh Bindra

Robert Macfarlane descends into dark depths to tell a compelling story of the present

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