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Mothers and Daughters

Kaveree Bamzai

A journey into lost love and its lingering trauma

Unspoken

Sharmistha Gooptu

The Indian President: An Insider’s Account of the Zail Singh Years (1982-87) /

The Indian President: An Insider’s Account of the Zail Singh Years (1982-87)

KC Singh

The President’s Man

Giani Zail Singh’s tenure reveals the limits and possibilities of the highest office

History’s Angel /

History’s Angel

Anjum Hasan

Prisoner of the Present

Anjum Hasan’s new novel is about a middle-aged history teacher living in Delhi

A Man from Motihari /

A Man from Motihari

Abdullah Khan

Searching for Orwell

Fantasy and reality tell of a struggling writer from Bihar

Breakup: A Marriage In Wartime /

Breakup: A Marriage In Wartime

Anjan Sundaram

Lost in Battle

The personal price a reporter pays to witness a war

Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City /

Shahjahanabad: Mapping a Mughal City

Swapna Liddle | Visual curators: Pramod Kapoor and Sneha Pamneja

Delhi on the Map

Giles Tillotson

When cartography reveals a city’s cultural history

Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century /

Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji

The Rage of the Liberals

When they pushed Gandhi to the sidelines after the Chauri Chaura violence of 1922

Subversive Whispers /

Subversive Whispers

Manasi | Translated from Malayalam by J Devika

Female Rage

Malayalam short stories on gender inequalities

India’s Blind Spot: Understanding and Managing our Cities /

India’s Blind Spot: Understanding and Managing our Cities

Devashish Dhar

Can India’s Cities be Saved?

Rajeev Deshpande

In “India’s Blind Spot” Devashish Dhar examines how unworkable rules and laws distorted India’s land market and how data, technology and pragmatic planning is way forward

Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange /

Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange

Kevin Gosztola

The Good Fight

The trial of Julian Assange and its implications for press freedom

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