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The Showman and the Shaman

Geeta Doctor

A family memoir chronicling the deities of Indian theatre

Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi/Padamsee Family Memoir

Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi/Padamsee Family Memoir

Feisal Alkazi

The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest /

The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest

Ed Caesar

Madness of Mountains

Restoring an adventurer and eccentric to his rightful place in the annals of Everest

Of Gifted Voice: The Life and Art of MS Subbulakshmi /

Of Gifted Voice: The Life and Art of MS Subbulakshmi

Keshav Desiraju

The Mind of Music

MS Subbulakshmi’s life was marked by choices that continue to perplex us

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair With the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind /

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair With the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

Ramachandra Guha

The Pitch of Life

Suhrith Parthasarathy

Ramachandra Guha’s lifelong relationship with cricket as a fan and scholar

Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization /

Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization

Namit Arora

Marco’s Malabar

Kings, ox worship, naked monks, magic and more—the coasts of southern India through the eyes of Marco Polo

Restless as Mercury: My Life as a Young Man /

Restless as Mercury: My Life as a Young Man

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

‘Every Gandhi-sceptic and Gandhi-adherent must bear in mind that he was human’

An interview with Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Centuty India

Ravinder Kaur

The Marketable Idea of India

Ravinder Kaur tracks liberalised India and its links to cultural nationalism

The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts /

The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts

Audrey Truschke

Sanskrit with a Persian Accent

Audrey Truschke

It’s a language of the Muslim pasts too

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing /

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

Sonia Faleiro

Back to Badaun

Sonia Faleiro’s true crime reads like a thriller and tells of north India’s many faultlines

Fractured Forest, Quartzite City: A History of Delhi and Its Ridge /

Fractured Forest, Quartzite City: A History of Delhi and Its Ridge

Thomas Crowley

A Ridge Runs through It

A re-telling of Delhi’s history from the vantage point of its green lung

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