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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: Words Of A Vanished World

Nandini Nair

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra tells Nandini Nair about India’s changing relationship with English and the essays that will last and those that will not

Bride of the Forest:  The Untold Story of Yayati’s Daughter /
Bride of the Forest: The Untold Story of Yayati’s Daughter
Madhavi Mahadevan
Woman to the Rescue

A modern retelling of an epic search for immortality

Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist /
Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist
Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring
Bruce Wannell: Ode to an Orientalist

William Dalrymple celebrates the wisdom and spirit of his friend—Bruce Wannell—a linguist and musician, translator and teacher

Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions /
Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions
Sundeep Khanna and Varun Sood
Giving and Growing

Azim Premji is a philanthropist at heart and a businessman by choice

A Promised Land  /
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
The Questioning Self

The form of autobiography has long been Barack Obama’s way of explaining his way in the world

The Silence /
The Silence
Don DeLillo
Black Noise

Reading Don DeLillo in the time of a pandemic

Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi /
Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi
Vinay Sitapati
Why BJP Wins

Because teamwork is central to Hindu nationalism

The Brass Notebook: A Memoir /
The Brass Notebook: A Memoir
Devaki Jain
On Her Own Terms

An autobiography of lived freedoms

Hellfire /
Hellfire
Leesa Gazi | Translated by Shabnam Nadiya
Mum Is the Word

An extraordinary novel on toxic relationships in a family

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