books

Mughal Lite

Audrey Truschke

Recent biographies of Jahangir and Nur Jahan may have made the royal couple more accessible, but they often slip into the realm of conjecture

Michelle Obama: Grace Over Guile

Nandini Nair

Michelle Obama’s memoir tells of an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey

Wild Lives

Adil Bhat

A personal portrait of tribal sensitivity

Beyond the Rage

Antara Sengupta

Are the angry students confused?

The Evil Joke

S Prasannarajan

Éric Vuillard, the 2017 winner of Prix Goncourt, returns to the pathologies of the past in what could be the smallest novel—and one of the most powerful-- ever written on the Nazi project

The Rise of Hindu Populism

Gyan Prakash

From Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi

Akil Kumarasamy: ‘Borders are a colonial dream’

Bhavya Dore

Akil Kumarasamy’s debut work is powered by the history of fractured nations

The Anonymity of Greatness

Gillian Wright

The Urdu novelist who has slipped out of the pantheon

Sublime Sex

Poorna Swami

Women between desire and despair

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India