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Quarantine Diaries and Pastoral Accounts

Nachiket Joshi

Marilyn Hacker, Karthika Naïr and Siddhartha Menon’s poetry evoke a deep sense of shared humanity

A Different Distance: A Renga

A Different Distance: A Renga

Marilyn Hacker, Karthika Naïr

OTP Please: Online Buyers, Sellers and Gig Workers in South Asia /

OTP Please: Online Buyers, Sellers and Gig Workers in South Asia

Vandana Vasudevan

The Many Costs and Benefits of the Gig Economy

Nandini Nair

A new book examines societal changes brought about by tech and apps

Blue Prints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity /

Blue Prints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

Marcus du Sautoy

The Geometry of Life

Gautam Bhatia

Fresh insight into the shapes of creativity

The Call of Music: 8 Stories of Hindustani Musicians /

The Call of Music: 8 Stories of Hindustani Musicians

Priya Purushothaman

Roots of the Raga

Abhilasha Ojha

The living traditions of Hindustani classical music

All Fours /

All Fours

Miranda July

An Erotic Novel Spotlights Perimenopause

Nandini Nair

Miranda July’s All Fours is celebrated by some and reviled by others

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory /

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

Jagadish Shukla

Predicting the Rain

Anoop Mahajan

A meteorologist maps how monsoon forecasting was revolutionised

The Fantastic Affair of Despair /

The Fantastic Affair of Despair

Doorva Devarshi

Call of the Leopard

Madhulika Liddle

An unreal tale of women in post-Independent India

The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship /

The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship

AS Dulat

Doctor Sahib and the Spook

PK Hormis Tharakan

The Kashmir story told through a politician and a spy

The Elsewhereans /

The Elsewhereans

Jeet Thayil

The Constant Migrant

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil traces a family story across the globe in his new novel. The author speaks about movement and cities to

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia /

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

Sam Dalrymple

The Many Partitions

Bhavya Dore

Sam Dalrymple records how the Indian empire was unmade. The author in conversation with

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