Books

Monkey Business

Arunima Mazumdar

A dream-like sequence, set around two boys, of the history of Bangladesh

The Soft and Hard City

Jaideep Unudurti

A photographer’s personal journey charts Hyderabad’s trajectory

Leave Agatha Christie Alone

Shylashri Shankar

To censor books is to overlook the social contexts they were set in

A Dragon in the Garden

Fehmida Zakeer

When people encounter the unknown

A Passage to India

Navtej Sarna

The diplomatic manoeuvrings behind the East India Company

Memoirs of Water

Nandini Nair

Abraham Verghese’s new novel is a sprawling family saga steeped in history. The physician-author speaks about medicine and writing, faith and families

The Unruly Road to Revolution

Siddharth Singh

The emergence of constitutional politics in America has a larger story to tell

Who Are We?

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Tracing the evolution of India’s unique identity

Anjana Appachana: Listening Again

Nandini Nair

Her first novel in more than two decades returns to homes filled with silences and secrets, disappointments and dreams. The novelist in conversation with