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Being Tamil

N Kalyan Raman

Tracing the cultural evolution of a state

The Sweet Salt Of Tamil: Things We Do Not Know About Tamil Country
The Sweet Salt Of Tamil: Things We Do Not Know About Tamil Country
Tho Paramasivan | Translated by V Ramnarayan
The Broken Script : Delhi Under The East India Company and the Fall of The Mughal Dynasty, 1803-1857 /
The Broken Script : Delhi Under The East India Company and the Fall of The Mughal Dynasty, 1803-1857
Swapna Liddle
The Twilight City
Antara Raghavan

Swapna Liddle portrays a Delhi where histories overlap

Mansur /
Mansur
Vikramajit Ram
A Portrait of Intrigue
Madhulika Liddle

The passions of artists at a Mughal atelier

Insurgency and The Artist: The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India /
Insurgency and The Artist: The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India
Vinay Lal
The Politics of Art
Mukund Padmanabhan

A pictorial history of the freedom struggle

Illuminations /
Illuminations
Alan Moore
Moore’s Second Coming
Jaideep Unudurti

Alan Moore’s first collection of short stories is a deconstruction of the American comics industry. The iconic comic book writer in conversation with

Victory City /
Victory City
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie Comes Home
S Prasannarajan

Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East

Queersapien /
Queersapien
Sharif D Rangnekar
The Right to Love
Chintan Girish Modi

Chronicling the queer experience in India

The Book of Bihari Literature /
The Book of Bihari Literature
Edited by Abhay K
Patna to Purnia
Aditya Mani Jha

Difficult truths from Bihar concealed within acceptable homilies

The Corbett Papers: Life and Career of Jim Corbett of Kumaon /
The Corbett Papers: Life and Career of Jim Corbett of Kumaon
Edited by Akshay Shah and Stephen Alter
The Hunter’s Nature
Ranjit Lal

The enduring aura of Jim Corbett

A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir /
A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir
AS Dulat
When Shadows Speak
Ravi Joshi

A spymaster tells the Kashmir story through his own life

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