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King Cool

Giles Tillotson

The last maharaja of Indore was both a dashing and doomed figure

The Last Maharaja Of Indore: Yeshwant Rao Holkar Ii – Aesthete, Patron, Tragic Prince
The Last Maharaja Of Indore: Yeshwant Rao Holkar Ii – Aesthete, Patron, Tragic Prince
Géraldine Lenain | Translated by Sindhuja Veeraragavan
The Other Sister /
The Other Sister
Amrita Tripathi
Lonely in the Crowd
Madhulika Liddle

An exploration of young lives caught in flux

Masala Mandi: A Guide to the World Of Indian Spice Blends /
Masala Mandi: A Guide to the World Of Indian Spice Blends
Sadaf Hussain
Spice Trail
Sourish Bhattacharyya

A portrait of India through its flavours

Chhaunk I On Food, Economics and Society /
Chhaunk I On Food, Economics and Society
Abhijit Banerjee | Illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier
A Man of Taste
Madhavankutty Pillai

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee stirs up a feast with recipes and analysis

Mad About Cuba /
Mad About Cuba
Ullekh NP
Kannur to Cuba
Pushpa Kurup

A journalist unearths Kerala’s many ties with the land of Che

A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of My Life /
A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of My Life
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed
A Partial Portrait
Shaan Kashyap

Syeda Saiyidain Hameed’s memoir helps decode the paradoxes of the Indian elite

Interstellar MegaChef /
Interstellar MegaChef
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Palate Pleasers
Aditya Mani Jha

An intergalactic cooking show reveals what governs our taste

Malayali Memorial and Other Stories /
Malayali Memorial and Other Stories
Unni R | Translated from Malayalam by J Devika
Trickster Tales
Geeta Doctor

Kerala of the body and mind

I’ll Have It Here I Poems /
I’ll Have It Here I Poems
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil: Lyrical Impulse
Nachiket Joshi

Jeet Thayil faces the calamities of existence in his new collection of poems

Who Is Equal? The Equality Code of the Constitution /
Who Is Equal? The Equality Code of the Constitution
Saurabh Kirpal
All Are Equal?
Alok Prasanna Kumar

A lawyer untangles the philosophical and practical tangents of inequality

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