Srirangapattana’s zenana might have housed 333 women, but Tipu Sultan was an affectionate family man and a just king
PV Narasimha Rao, one of India’s most misunderstood prime ministers, finally gets a biography he deserves
Cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Murkherjee highlights the importance of tenderness in scientific inquiry and the many meanings of ‘normal’
Activist Lindy West speaks out against a culture where bigness is seen as a moral failing
For the first time in English, read about the mythic French captain in Hindustan, the superhero of 1857
The frailties and fantasies of this Man Booker shortlisted novel make it a quiet classic
A Nobel Laureate chronicles the fall of the Soviet Union