A behind-the-scenes account of the creation of India’s states and Union Territories
An Italian artist travels across timeframes and cultures in the East
Tariq Ali reports from the fault lines of Afghanistan to make sense of its current trauma
The seamless contradictions of Jawaharlal Nehru
An anatomical study of the Biblical God makes the divine intimately human
The Venetian who chronicled the Mughal Empire
A queer-themed novel about immigrants, spanning Chennai to San Francisco
Kannada author Vasudhendra’s short stories about city and village life are rife with cynicism and social satire