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The Literary Journeys of Shashi Tharoor

David Davidar

Mind in motion

Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor
Pride, Prejudice, and Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor
The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non Western Worldview /
The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non Western Worldview
Ram Madhav
Dharmocracy: Hindutva and Democracy
Ram Madhav

Deen Dayal Upadhyay gave democracy an indigenous foundation

An Economic History of India 1707-1857 /
An Economic History of India 1707-1857
Tirthankar Roy
The Birth of Modern India
Zareer Masani

Nationalist tropes and imperial assumptions miss the Raj’s real economic impact

Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History /
Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History
Martyn Rix
Floral Folios
Riddhi Doshi

A cultural canvas for Indian plants

Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine /
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine
Kavitha Rao
Destiny’s Doctors
Urvashi Bahuguna

Stories of six pioneering women

The Elephant in the Womb /
The Elephant in the Womb
Kalki Koechlin | Illustrated by Valeriya Polyanychko
Kalki Koechlin: Dragon Queen
Kaveree Bamzai

Kalki Koechlin’s mommy memoir is like her: candid, creative and full of truths that the merchants of bliss don’t reveal

Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition /
Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition
Uday Mahurkar
The Restoration of Savarkar
Uday Mahurkar

How relevant is his muscular national security vision today?

False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma /
False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma
Manu S Pillai
The Quiet Patriotism of Ravi Varma
Manu S Pillai

Funded by maharajahs, admired by moderates while also welcoming the extremist vision, in his domain, the artist manifested a nationalism of his own

The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories /
The Lesbian Cow and Other Stories
Indu Menon | Translated from Malayalam by Nandakumar K
The Anatomy of Outrage
Suneetha Balakrishnan

Short stories etched in blood and honesty

Equations /
Equations
Shivani Sibal
Capital Cabal
Chintan Girish Modi

A portrait of class dynamics and social change in Delhi

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