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Resistance and Resilience

Arshia Sattar

Women characters in the Mahabharata push back against patriarchy in a new interpretation of the epic

Death is a Labyrinth

Shylashri Shankar

The logical reasoning of Japanese locked-room mysteries

Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

Nandini Nair

Akash Kapur’s nonfiction book tells of the quest for utopia in Auroville. He speaks to Nandini Nair about writing history without judgement and the impossibility of an ideal world

Stalin as Metaphor

Ullekh NP

CP Surendran marshals powerful characters to link the old and the new

Forbidden Intimacies

Chintan Girish Modi

A debut short story collection from Pakistan lays bare power and desire

Amartya Sen: A Prologue to Greatness

Mani Shankar Aiyar

From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom