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‘Reliving your life is superior to living it,’ says Gurcharan Das

Lhendup G Bhutia

Author and corporate guru Gurcharan Das speaks about his memoir to

Another Sort of Freedom

Another Sort of Freedom

Gurcharan Das

Roman Stories /

Jhumpa Lahiri | Translated from Italian by the author with Todd Portnowitz

Always the Outsider

The idea of alienation permeates Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories

From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada /

From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada

Sudha Bharadwaj

The Prison Diarist

Lhendup G Bhutia

Sudha Bharadwaj, an activist on bail, talks about her book on the life in a jail

Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King /

Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King

Patrick Olivelle

Ashoka: The King Who Said Sorry

Patrick Olivelle’s riveting portrait of Ashoka brings out the universalism of the virtuous ruler

The Day I Became A Runner: A Women’s History of India Through the Lens of Sport /

The Day I Became A Runner: A Women’s History of India Through the Lens of Sport

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Racing Against Time

What the women runners reveal about Indian society

Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns /

Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

MJ Akbar

The Moral Realist

Gandhi’s sympathy for Jews did not blind him to injustice against Arabs

The Sufi’s Nightingale /

The Sufi’s Nightingale

Sarbpreet Singh

Longing in Lahore

Chintan Girish Modi

The many secrets of love and faith

Another India:Events, Memories, People /

Another India:Events, Memories, People

Chandan Gowda

Of Kings and Mystics

Glimpses into India’s moral traditions

Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East /

Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

Uri Kaufman

Who by His Own Hand?

A new book on the October 1973 Yom Kippur War provides an inadvertent insight into what went wrong for Israel on October 7, 2023

Indian Cookery /

Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey: Kitchen Confidante

The 40th anniversary edition of Madhur Jaffrey’s cult cook book is a reminder of the food traditions that change and those that do not. The actor, author, and chef speaks to

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