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The Walking Wounded

Questions of citizenship in an increasingly nationalistic world

The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book examines one of the great moral challenges of World War II and the price of different actions

‘Writing is Diving into the Chaos’

Jhumpa Lahiri discusses words and the world with Nandini Nair

Roth Unbound

Remembering an American master on the anniversary of his death—and the biography that boomeranged

The Business of Pleasure

The offline and online contours of sex work in Mumbai

Rebels versus Soldiers

Increasingly, guerrilla groups and government troops exhibit similar military behaviour

Ashok Ferrey: Our Fathers in Heaven

Ashok Ferrey’s new book captures Sri Lankans at home and abroad. The author tells Antara Raghavan about the persistence of grief and the art of construction

Bound by the Need for Breath

The discrete and distinct joys of reading poets Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote

Amit Chaudhuri: ‘I place our music in our experience of distraction and listening’

Author and musician Amit Chaudhuri speaks to V Shoba about his new book on modernism in Hindustani classical music and ways to renew the art form

‘There was no telling where a new bud might sprout’

In his memoir, translated for the first time into English, Girish Karnad writes that his artistic evolution began the instant he set foot in college

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