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How Easy Love Can Be

Rohit Chawla

Aground in the pandemic on the monsoon beaches of Goa, award-winning photographer Rohit Chawla had hislife restored in the company of stray dogs hungry and forgotten in the absence of humans

The New Change Agent

Harsh V Pant

Dhruva Jaishankar maps the evolution of India’s foreign policy

The Right Way to Revise History

Shaan Kashyap

A new collection of essays explores recent strides in decolonising the study of India’s past while freeing it of ideological bias

Masters at Work

Madhulika Liddle

An anthology that showcases the art and range of the Indian short story

An Istanbul Odyssey

Sudeep Paul

Turkish Ambassador Firat Sunel’s newly translated novel is a psychological thriller

Human Bonds

Nachiket Joshi

Kavery Nambisan’s eighth novel, set in rural Karnataka one hundred years ago, tells of status and identity, loss and pursuit

Longing and Ruin

Anjali Chauhan

A woman’s fraught journey towards self-discovery

Chitra Subramaniam’s new book, Boforsgate, explains the plot to ‘fix’ the Bachchans

Ullekh NP

A team of Indian investigators in the Bofors defence deal ‘planted’ the story on Amitabh Bachchan, reveals the Switzerland-based journalist-author in the forthcoming book