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Set in Stone

Raunaq Saraswat

A Delhi saga spanning two hundred years foregrounds the masons and labourers

The Garden of Heaven
The Garden of Heaven
Madhulika Liddle
Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj /
Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
MJ Akbar
Race, Corruption, Morality and the Making of Anglo-India
MJ Akbar

Justice Pulbandi and the hanged Maharaja

Transgender in India—Achievers and Survivors: An Ode to Transwomen /
Transgender in India—Achievers and Survivors: An Ode to Transwomen
CK Gariyali and Priyadarshini Rajkumar
Dignity for All
Nanditha Krishna

The changing status of transgenders in India

The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party /
The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party
Nalin Mehta
Why More Women Vote BJP
Nalin Mehta

A clash of feminisms

Tell Me How to Be /
Tell Me How to Be
Neel Patel
Tell Me How to Be
Neel Patel

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The Origin Story of India’s States /
The Origin Story of India’s States
Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan
Mapping the Nation
Medha Dutta Yadav

A behind-the-scenes account of the creation of India’s states and Union Territories

Diary of an Italian Artist in India: Synchrony of Opposites /
Diary of an Italian Artist in India: Synchrony of Opposites
Simona Bocchi
Eat, Love, Sculpt
Geeta Doctor

An Italian artist travels across timeframes and cultures in the East

The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold /
The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold
Tariq Ali
Dateline History
Ullekh NP

Tariq Ali reports from the fault lines of Afghanistan to make sense of its current trauma

Nehru: The Debates That Defined India /
Nehru: The Debates That Defined India
Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain
Nehru: The Idealist and the Realist
Siddharth Singh

The seamless contradictions of Jawaharlal Nehru

God: An Anatomy /
God: An Anatomy
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
The Shape of God
S Prasannarajan

An anatomical study of the Biblical God makes the divine intimately human

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