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The Empire of Ideas

Sudeep Paul

William Dalrymple’s new book mapping India’s civilisational legacy tells the world a story and invites Indians to a debate

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
William Dalrymple
The Nukes, the Jihad, the Hawalas, and Crystal Meth /
The Nukes, the Jihad, the Hawalas, and Crystal Meth
Iqbal Chand Malhotra
The Meth Supremacy
Iqbal Chand Malhotra

How the ISI deceived America to protect the Afghan drug trade and enable the Taliban’s return

Tripping Down the Ganga A Son’s Exploration of Faith /
Tripping Down the Ganga A Son’s Exploration of Faith
Siddharth Kapila
Pilgrim’s Puzzle
Chintan Girish Modi

A son’s love-hate relationship with faith

A Bouquet of Dead Flowers /
A Bouquet of Dead Flowers
Swadesh Deepak | Translated by Jerry Pinto, Nirupama Dutt, Pratik Kanjilal and Sukant Deepak
Master of the Neo-Gothic
Aditya Mani Jha

Swadesh Deepak’s short stories penetrate masculine stereotypes and shatter illusions

Gully Gully: Travels around India during the 2023 World Cup /
Gully Gully: Travels around India during the 2023 World Cup
Aditya Iyer
Idol Worship
Aditya Iyer

India’s obsession with cricket seen through a super fan in Chennai

Everyday Indian Aesthetic /
Everyday Indian Aesthetic
Sayali Goyal
The Beauty Myth
Nandini Nair

Sayali Goyal finds in ordinary objects the richness of Indian design. The photographer tells how she turns the mundane into the magnificent

Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilisation was Discovered /
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilisation was Discovered
Nayanjot Lahiri
The Discovery that Changed Indian History
Ullekh NP

Nayanjot Lahiri unearths ASI files to retell how the cities of the Indus Civilisation were found a hundred years ago

Breaking Rocks and Barriers: Memoirs of a Geologist and Mountaineer /
Breaking Rocks and Barriers: Memoirs of a Geologist and Mountaineer
Sudipta Sengupta
Woman on the Peak
Shail Desai

A pioneering geologist and explorer recounts her life

The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly /
The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly
Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali
Founding Women
TCA Raghavan

The making of the Indian republic in 15 portraits

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War /
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
Giles Milton
In Uncle Joe’s Bunker
Sudeep Paul

An American tycoon, a British diplomat and how they got Stalin to play ball with Roosevelt and Churchill

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