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Bad Blood

Jishnu Das

A portrait of tuberculosis that reveals society’s ill-informed choices

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

Vidya Krishnan

How China Sees India and the World /

How China Sees India and the World

Shyam Saran

China’s India Complex

Shyam Saran

The model that frightens Beijing the most

To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World And Shaped Ours /

To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World And Shaped Ours

Rahul Sagar

India of the Mind

Siddharth Singh

Far from being colonised subjects, Indians in the 19th century had a vibrant sense of strategic affairs

How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft and Freedom in Modern Societies /

How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft and Freedom in Modern Societies

Stein Ringen

The Persistence of Democracy

Ullekh NP

Stein Ringen offers a new definition for democracy and hits out at sceptics

In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition /

In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition

Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra: The Memory Keeper

Aditya Mani Jha

Aanchal Malhotra maps the legacy of Partition through oral histories. The author in conversation with Aditya Mani Jha

Aurangzeb’s Iconoclasm /

Aurangzeb’s Iconoclasm

François Gautier

Aurangzeb’s Reign in the Light of His Own Orders

François Gautier

Aurangzeb’s reign in the light of his own orders

Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to His Son, Devadas /

Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to His Son, Devadas

Edited by Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Tridip Suhrud

Gandhi, the Father

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

A shared vein of political reflection makes the letters to his son Devadas special

In the Shadow of the Mountain /

In the Shadow of the Mountain

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Mountains of the Mind

Shail Desai

When climbing high peaks proves cathartic

The Immortal King Rao /

The Immortal King Rao

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara: The Tech Realist

Aditya Mani Jha

Aditya Mani Jha speaks to Vauhini Vara about her debut novel, a blend of the historical and the satirical

Moments With My Mother /

Moments With My Mother

Lela Lee

Mom Versus Child

Sharanya Manivannan

What it means to have an abusive mother

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