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Sampad Patnaik

A soldier’s memoir is the story of Indian Army too

India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, 1947 to Today  /
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, 1947 to Today
Ashoka Mody
Through a Lens Darkly

Ashoka Mody’s understanding of Indian democracy is unnecessarily pessimistic

The World: A Family History /
The World: A Family History
Simon Sebag Montefiore
‘I tried to think of a way to put the human back into a world history,’ says Simon Sebag Montefiore

In two volumes, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world’s great families. The historian speaks about combining the span of world history with the grit of human biography

Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand /
Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Nayanjot Lahiri
On the Ashoka Trail

Nayanjot Lahiri travels through Asia to explore the different images of the Mauryan emperor. The author in conversation with Open

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise /
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
Pico Iyer
Enchantments of Memory

Kashmir is a parable about how paradise becomes something different to every neighbour

Chechnya to Ukraine /
Chechnya to Ukraine
Mark Galeotti
The End of Putin’s Dream?

Why Russia is not a 21st century Sparta

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