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Life As a Gallery

Aditya Mani Jha

Manju Kapur’s seventh novel reevaluates marriage and class, power and art in Delhi. The author in conversation with

The Gallery
Manju Kapur
An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy /
An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Acrobat and the Safety Net

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells why her book on the early life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy is a rare love story

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses /
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Aarathi Prasad
Cocooned in Time

A cultural and biological history of silk

The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told /
The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by AJ Thomas
Metaphorical Malayalee

A portrait of Kerala in fifty stories

Modi & India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat /
Modi & India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat
Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya
The Second Republic

Can a Hindu Rashtra be a pluralistic nation?

Never Out of Print: The Rupa Story: The Journey of an Independent Indian Publisher /
Never Out of Print: The Rupa Story: The Journey of an Independent Indian Publisher
Rajen Mehra
Bouquets and Books

The author, a pioneer in Indian publishing, relives a journey that began from Calcutta’s New Market with Hermann Hesse as one of the guides. An excerpt from his memoir

Why Bharat Matters /
Why Bharat Matters
S Jaishankar
Flexible Power

National interest will guide India unerringly if it does not get distracted by ideological reservations

Kashmir: Book 3 of The Partition Trilogy /
Kashmir: Book 3 of The Partition Trilogy
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
A Line Runs through It

Hope and hopelessness in Kashmir during Partition

Mad Sisters of Esi /
Mad Sisters of Esi
Tashan Mehta
Cosmic Chaos

Two sisters learn about family and belonging in the belly of a fantasy whale

Fire on the Ganges:  Life Among the Dead in Banaras /
Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
Radhika Iyengar
Where Life and Death Coexist

The Doms who sustain Banaras’ burning ghats

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