biography
‘I have written on Ambedkar in good faith’
Ullekh NP
Shashi Tharoor’s latest book, Ambedkar: A Life, dwells on the scholar-politician’s trials and tribulations, achievements and associations, and his differences with leaders of the stature of Gandhi and Nehru
Roth Unbound
Remembering an American master on the anniversary of his death—and the biography that boomeranged
Unbooked
Cancel culture strikes again with Philip Roth’s biography being pulled out by the publisher
Biography as Fiction
Devi S Laskar’s debut novel navigates present-day US with its police brutality, racial tension and immigrant angst
The Lives of Others
Sanjay Dutt’s biographer Yasser Usman on the ennui of hagiographies and the challenge of writing unauthorised biographies
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