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Padma Purana

What adds spice to the memoirs of Padma Lakshmi, model and celebrity chef whose story stretches from conservative Madras to haute Manhattan, is the portrait of her ex-husband Salman Rushdie, ‘all arched-eyebrows’

An Empire Redeemed

Audrey Truschke goes deep into the fundamental flaws of Hindu-Mulsim distrust

‘They were Indian kings’

A Sanskrit scholar from America returns to the Mughal court to trace its Indian cultural roots

The Crayon Revolution

What is the lure of the adult colouring book? Is it a sign of boredom and loneliness? Does it alleviate stress? Is it a return to childhood? Or is it a symptom of ‘rage against the machine’?

Europe Reimagined

As three historians return to the bloody evolution of 20th century Europe, we realise how the current cataclysms of a continent make it easier for us to understand its past

Love and Language

Poet-saint Andal’s work proves that she regards the body a site of the sacred as much as the soul

Out of Tune

This translation of Sufi saint Shah Hussein’s work speaks in his voice but not in all its fullness

Written on the Body

A master of ‘wet poems’ places the body at the centre of political and social structures 

Bant Singh: Notes of Defiance

An ode to the Dalit singer Bant Singh explores the beauty and bloodiness of Punjab

Stripped to the Core

Is writing a memoir worth the sacrifice, the self-shaming, the self-aggrandising?

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