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‘Fiction and Non-Fiction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Madhavankutty Pillai

Amitav Ghosh’s recent anthology of essays spotlights his three main themes—migration, environment and history. A conversation with the author

Wild Fictions

Wild Fictions

Amitav Ghosh

My Head for A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors /

My Head for A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World’s First Eco-Warriors

Martin Goodman

Grassroot Warriors

Mukul Sharma

Lessons from a community renowned for its commitment to protect nature

Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations Into Modern Karnataka /

Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations Into Modern Karnataka

Srikar Raghavan

Cultural Memory

V Shoba

Excavating the Kannada intellectual history

From Jomo to Uhuru, Rao’s Nine Lives: Reminisces of the Courage, Power and Intrigues that Shaped Kenya’s Post-Colonial History /

From Jomo to Uhuru, Rao’s Nine Lives: Reminisces of the Courage, Power and Intrigues that Shaped Kenya’s Post-Colonial History

Sharad Rao

A True Pioneer

Krishnan Srinivasan

The rare Indian who rose high in the Kenyan civil service

Too Good to Be True /

Too Good to Be True

Prajakta Koli

Unbelievably True

Nandini Nair

How a debut author’s romance novel sold 1,50,000 copies within a month of its release

The World After Gaza /

The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra

The Moral Inverted

Madhavankutty Pillai

Pankaj Mishra’s argument against Israel is for the already converted

The World with Its Mouth Open /

The World with Its Mouth Open

Zahid Rafiq

Haunted Spectres

Urvashi Bahuguna

Eleven stories that tell of refuge and exile

For The Love of Apricots /

For The Love of Apricots

Madhulika Liddle

Second Chances

Chintan Girish Modi

In the Kumaon Hills an unlikely couple celebrate food and love

AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity /

AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity

Anil Maheshwari and Arjun Maheshwari

AMU: Little Biographies

Shaan Kashyap

In Maheshwaris’ account, the history of AMU reads like a tragedy

Malabar, Mysore, and a Tale of Two Sultans /

Malabar, Mysore, and a Tale of Two Sultans

Pushpa Kurup

Hero or Villain?

K Kunhikrishnan

The contested legacy of Tipu Sultan and his father

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