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Books

The High-Minded Life

A Gandhian prism to the world

Speaking Trees

The web between humans and the natural world

Irwin Allan Sealy: The Kingmaker

Irwin Allan Sealy’s new book is about Ashoka. The novelist tells Bhavya Dore why his king belongs to the modern times

Anindita Ghose: Waiting for the Light

The political adds a darker edge to Anindita Ghose’s first novel

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: ‘Films Are Like Your Best Friends’

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, director of ground-breaking movies, relives his spectacular success and noble failures

It’s the Economy, Stupid!

A star economist recounts his experience as a policy wonk

The Rebel Model

The inscrutable art and life of Rajinikanth

What’s the future of the art museum post-Covid?

András Szántó delves into the subject and expects Indians and others not to ape the West, but to democratise museums

An Objective History

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

A Poet’s Pursuits

The passions and poetry of Agha Shahid Ali

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