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The Rewards of Ambition

Rajeev Deshpande

How India moved from coercive controls to economic freedom

Mapping the Hindu Mind

Rajshree Chandra

Understanding VD Savarkar’s political thought through his idea of history

Hilary Mantel (1952-2022): Past Perfectionist

Shylashri Shankar

Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) humanised characters from history, as she was interested in where politics met psychology, where the private met the public

In a new biography of Ambedkar, Shashi Tharoor gets a measure of the constitutionalist and nation-builder, contending that an honest survey of Ambedkar’s life and its impact needs to also look at those faults for which he can be legitimately criticised without taking away from his greatness

Can God Die?

Arshia Sattar

War and morality in the Mahabharata

Who Killed My Son?

Ullekh NP

An Indian-origin mother chronicles her 25-year-long battle for justice in the UK

Jawaharlal Nehru: The Man and the Myth

Siddharth Singh

The rediscovery of Jawaharlal Nehru

Moni Mohsin: Flights of the Butterfly

Bhavya Dore

Moni Mohsin returns with her party-going, status-chasing, protagonist. She tells Bhavya Dore why she looks at Pakistani society through a gossipy socialite