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Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

Nandini Nair

Akash Kapur’s nonfiction book tells of the quest for utopia in Auroville. He speaks to Nandini Nair about writing history without judgement and the impossibility of an ideal world

Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I. /
Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I.
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
Spy vs Spy

When the RAW put the ISI in a spot after 9/11

One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B /
One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B
CP Surendran
Stalin as Metaphor

CP Surendran marshals powerful characters to link the old and the new

Are You Enjoying?  /
Are You Enjoying?
Mira Sethi
Forbidden Intimacies

A debut short story collection from Pakistan lays bare power and desire

Home in the World /
Home in the World
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen: A Prologue to Greatness

From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom

The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward /
The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward
Pavan K Varma
Hindu Civilisation: The Test of Antiquity

A mysterious river and what it says about the true age of Hindu civilisation

The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi /
The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Edited by Venu Madhav Govindu and Srinath Raghavan
The High-Minded Life

A Gandhian prism to the world

The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature /
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
Peter Wohlleben | Translated by Jane Billinghurst
Speaking Trees

The web between humans and the natural world

Asoca: A Sutra /
Asoca: A Sutra
Irwin Allan Sealy
Irwin Allan Sealy: The Kingmaker

Irwin Allan Sealy’s new book is about Ashoka. The novelist tells Bhavya Dore why his king belongs to the modern times

 The Illuminated /
The Illuminated
Anindita Ghose
Anindita Ghose: Waiting for the Light

The political adds a darker edge to Anindita Ghose’s first novel

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