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Bhavya Dore

Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts

Chats with the Dead

Chats with the Dead

Shehan Karunatalika

Low /

Low

Jeet Thayil

The Art of Loss

N Kalyan Raman

A widower’s weekend of highs and lows in Bombay

The Lone Empress: A Portrait of Jayalalithaa /

The Lone Empress: A Portrait of Jayalalithaa

Vaasanthi

As Amma Lay Dying

Vaasanthi

Jayalalithaa was imperious even in her final hours

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables /

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

BR Ambedkar | Introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Edited and Annotated by Alex George and S. Anand

Politics of Meat

Rohit Chakraborty

Updating Ambedkar’s understanding of how untouchability came to be and what it has become today

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia /

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia

Riaz Dean

Maps and Mavericks

Shail Desai

A well-rounded and engaging summary of how Imperial Russia and Great Britain tussled over Central Asia

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line /

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Deepa Anappara

Capital Saga

Nandini Nair

Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, set in a slum in metropolitan India, has the pace of a thriller and the heart of a children’s tale

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent /

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Priyamvada Gopal

The Colony Writes Back

Manu S Pillai

A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light /

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light

Dharini Bhaskar

Family Ways

Vineetha Mokkil

Dharini Bhaskar’s debut novel is a lyrical exploration of relationships

Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India /

Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India

Amit Khanna

The Changing Face of Media

Amit Khanna

In a society where multiple media are consumed simultaneously, traditional media are being forced to adapt

Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India /

Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India

Tripurdaman Singh

The Sword of Nehru

Zareer Masani

Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?

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