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The End of Immunity

Sudeep Paul

A lawyer-writer explains how Augusto Pinochet’s 1998 arrest in London changed international law even as he pursues the connection between the dictator and a notorious Nazi war criminal

Classroom Revolution

Mohit Satyanand

Moving students from passive to active learning

Ties that Bind

Bhavya Dore

A diasporic tale that examines motherhood

Reading the Cholas Right

Anirudh Kanisetti

By insisting on comforting and flat narratives, we misunderstand history

A book that revives the memories of the ‘forgotten heroes’ of the Ghadar Movement

Shaan Kashyap

Rana Preet Gill’s work offers a wealth of detail—material that an alert reader might well shape into probing questions

Mosaic of Mourning

Sudha G Tilak

Journalism meets poetry to map grief’s terrain

The Early Revolutionary

Rohit Chakraborty

Malayalam writer Benyamin retells the life and times of Jesus Christ in a secular way

How non-violent was Gandhi?

Shaan Kashyap

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s new book on the final phase of Gandhi’s life can be read in many ways. While it inspires, it also calls for greater pragmatism in the writing of history