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Bhavya Dore

Why it’s an unequal movement

Airplane Mode A Passive-Aggressive History of Travel

Airplane Mode A Passive-Aggressive History of Travel

Shahnaz Habib

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder /

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

S Prasannarajan

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

How We Vote: The Factors That Influence Voters /

How We Vote: The Factors That Influence Voters

Surjit S Bhalla and Abhinav Motheram

Minority Report: How Muslim’s Fare in Modi’s India

Surjit S Bhalla

Muslims in Modi’s India are doing better than Blacks in the US

The Gentleman from Peru /

The Gentleman from Peru

André Aciman

Past Continuous

Of incomplete lives and eternal love

Before I Forget /

Before I Forget

MK Raina

‘Theatre Is Questions. Theatre Is Debate’

Antara Raghavan

In his memoir actor and director MK Raina recounts using theatre to heal

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq /

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

The Liar Who Told the Truth

Steve Coll’s new book shows how mutual misunderstandings led to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and its catastrophic aftermath

The Chandayan /

Translated by Richard J Cohen

Mad with Love

An ancient romance as a spiritual allegory

The Saint of Bright Doors /

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

The Mythic Meets the Mundane

Aditya Mani Jha

A Sri Lankan novel is a top contender for the world’s leading science-fiction prize

Circles of Freedom: Friendship, Love and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle /

Circles of Freedom: Friendship, Love and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

TCA Raghavan

The Fellowship of Four Friends

Siddharth Singh

The freedom movement told through human connections

Ram Vilas Paswan: The Weathervane of Indian Politics /

Ram Vilas Paswan: The Weathervane of Indian Politics

Sobhana K Nair

A Serial Survivor

The trials and triumphs of Ram Vilas Paswan

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