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
CP Surendran marshals powerful characters to link the old and the new
A debut short story collection from Pakistan lays bare power and desire
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
A mysterious river and what it says about the true age of Hindu civilisation
A Gandhian prism to the world
The web between humans and the natural world
Irwin Allan Sealy’s new book is about Ashoka. The novelist tells Bhavya Dore why his king belongs to the modern times
The political adds a darker edge to Anindita Ghose’s first novel