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Everyday Heroines

Kanika Sharma

In praise of women who thrive in adversity

Hope Against Hope

Life stories of young Indians offer insights into how eagerly they want to join the globalised world

Dissenting Note

Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel is a meditation on an India that’s short on Nehruvian idealism

‘We need a book of the times we’re living in’

Investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark tell Shikha Kumar about the research for their bestselling book on Osama bin Laden. A film is in the making

Shobhaa Dé: Queen of Why Nots

Shobhaa Dé reminds us that age is not an abuse

Lost in the South

Charles Allen’s south Indian journey misses many historical moments

Sujatha Gidla: Identity Crisis

Sujatha Gidla is a subway conductor in New York with an Indian backstory of caste and isolation, now captured in a critically acclaimed memoir

The Lost Romance

A love story in nine parts

Bibliomania Unbound

Books as objects of obsession

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