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A Bridge across Rivers

Love and war in Portugal and India in the 16th century

‘Misrepresentations Damaged the Cause to Some Extent’

Shekhar Pathak’s book on the Chipko movement wins the Kamladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Book Prize. The author in conversation with Open

A Wife’s Gaze

An intimate portrait of Ambedkar

Nationhood and Sisterhood

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel traces freedom through a family saga

Shehan Karunatilaka: We’ve lived through war, but the great thing is there’s still hope

Shehan Karunatilaka is out with a collection of short stories, soon after his Booker win. The Sri Lankan author in conversation with Open

The Opening Punch

Chaos unfurls when vendetta is ill conceived, and a bag of riches is to be found

She Power

Making women count in the marketplace

Picture Perfect

The evolutionary saga of India as seen through a viewfinder

Vikas Khanna: Feasting on Life

Chef, filmmaker and author, Vikas Khanna now tells the story of an extraordinary old woman through a new documentary and book

Memory as Metaphor

Magic realism meets history in this retelling of Bangladesh’s origins

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