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Flights of Fancy

Shail Desai

On the trail of the subcontinent’s most enigmatic birds

Return to Calcutta

Ruchir Joshi’s new novel is about an epic city teeming with stories

The New Change Agent

Dhruva Jaishankar maps the evolution of India’s foreign policy

The Right Way to Revise History

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

An Istanbul Odyssey

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

Human Bonds

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

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

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

Home Lost and Found

Mapping a historic transition in Kashmir which embraces the new while retaining the ancient

Bengal’s Leading Man

Why Satyajit Ray’s favourite actor is special

‘Fiction and Non-Fiction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh’s recent anthology of essays spotlights his three main themes—migration, environment and history. A conversation with the author

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