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The Survivors

Chittajit Mitra

Thirty stories that capture the essence of Punjabiyat

The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told
The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told
Selected & edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri
Shades of Blue: Connecting the Dots in India’s Cities /
Shades of Blue: Connecting the Dots in India’s Cities
Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli
Rivers of Life
Ranjit Lal

A celebration of India's water bodies and why they must be saved

Fire Bird /
Fire Bird
Perumal Murugan | Translated by Janani Kannan
No Man’s Land
Antara Raghavan

Perumal Murugan’s novel wins the JCB Prize for its depiction of displacement and movement

Another Sort of Freedom /
Another Sort of Freedom
Gurcharan Das
‘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

Roman Stories /
Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri | Translated from Italian by the author with Todd Portnowitz
Always the Outsider
Nandini Nair

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
Upinder Singh

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
Sumana Ramanan

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
MJ Akbar

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

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