What is it that makes him an enduring literary icon of compassion and empathy?
The amazing story of a man and his publishing house that reshaped Hindu nationalism
This 1930s chronicle of a lower middle class youth brings out the genius of novelist and playwright Upendranath Ashk, known as the Proust of Hindi literature
An ambitious historical novel takes on the 20th century’s two great wars, with some hiccups
A pioneering Dalit autobiography that offers a remarkable narrative on the many aspects of truth
The writings of John Lang, who recorded the unexpected and the absurd of British India
Economists can’t regain their credibility unless they give up their physics envy
The final novel in Kiran Nagarkar’s trilogy takes his protagonists to the frenetic world of Bollywood and beyond
After a lifetime of international intrigue and Tibetan struggle, Gyalo Thondup tells his version of history
Wendy Doniger’s book on the Kamasutra reminds us of the dignities once afforded to women in our culture