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Modi in the Marketplace

Dhiraj Nayyar

The Prime Minister is on target

David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’

S Prasannarajan in Open Conversation with David Gilmour, English historian
 

The Plot Thickens

Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel has his trademark cliffhangers

Queen of the World

The female power of the Mughal Empire

Anita Desai: Insider Outsider

The Mexico of Anita Desai has an Indian core that remains resonant to this day

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: ‘To be truly adult is to be child-like’

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

The lives of poets and explorers in the twilight of the Raj

Open Diary

London books shops, Abir Mukherjee’s crime fiction and a sense of history

Infinite Passions

The many shades and shapes of love come alive in this exploration of Hinduism

Naipaul’s Reckoning With Empire

The Nobel laureate’s legacy has much to say to charges of amnesia about colonialism

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