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Power and Religion

Ira Mukhoty

The complex evolution of cultures and societies in the Deccan

Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas

Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas

Anirudh Kanisetti

Annus Horribilis /

Annus Horribilis

Avinab Datta-Areng

Dream Verse

Aditya Mani Jha

Avinab Datta-Areng’s debut poetry collection confronts family, loss and death. Aditya Mani Jha speaks to the poet

1946—Last War of Independence: Royal Indian Navy Mutiny /

1946—Last War of Independence: Royal Indian Navy Mutiny

Pramod Kapoor

The Right Rebels

Pramod Kapoor restores the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny to its proper place in the history of the freedom struggle

To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid /

To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid

Barkha Dutt

We Were Bereft. As Daughters. And As Citizens

A journalist’s personal, yet universal, grief during the pandemic

Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal /

Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal

Rajshree Chandra

The Poet Patriot

The moral and political life of Jagat Narain Lal

Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India /

Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India

Rukmini S

Truth in Numbers

Data tells us who we are

Atal Bihari Vajpayee /

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Sagarika Ghose

The Endearing Paradoxes of Vajpayee

Mukund Padmanabhan

Sagarika Ghose brings out the qualities and contradictions of India’s most indulged prime minister in a new biography

Run and Hide /

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra : Polemist as Novelist

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel that chronicles rapid urbanisation in an unequal India. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s hollow men and class wars

City of Incident: A Novel In Twelve Parts /

City of Incident: A Novel In Twelve Parts

Annie Zaidi

City Watching

Karthik Keramalu

Tales of aspirations and losses

Incantations Over Water /

Incantations Over Water

Sharanya Manivannan

The Magic of Mermaids

Tasneem Pocketwala

Sharanya Manivannan uses fantastical elements to talk about Sri Lanka’s trauma

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