The Making of Modern China: Return to Mao

Home Alone

There is more to Rajiv Malhotra’s latest book on Sanskrit than the usual Pollock pickle

How the Book Has Become a Museum Piece—for Its Own Good

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s Memoir: Dialogue is Destiny

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy

A New Chronicler of 1947

The author of Partition’s latest retelling retrieves the details and lesser-known stories of the Subcontinent’s big divide

High altitude drama

An intimate political history of India’s 22nd state that makes one reassess the scarcely questioned project of nation building

Kabul Calling

A classic literary travelogue takes a Bengali to 1920s Afghanistan and into its darkest and truest hours

THE INTERNATIONAL LIST

Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment

Bleak House

A collection of translated short stories by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay reveals his preoccupation with man’s inhumanity

The Meaning of Lakshmi

The Goddess shows how wealth can be liberation