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The Age of Genius
AC Grayling
The tumult of the 17th century led to a breakdown of systems but also to greater freedom and even greater innovation
Feluda@50: Forever Hero
Essays by Feluda fans on their affection for Satyajit Ray’s enduring detective
Kanishk Tharoor: Past Forward
Kanishk Tharoor creates fiction not from a castle of fancies but from the realm of history
The Originality of Evil
The best of crime fiction tells us that murder is sometimes the solution to greater malevolence
Padma Purana
What adds spice to the memoirs of Padma Lakshmi, model and celebrity chef whose story stretches from conservative Madras to haute Manhattan, is the portrait of her ex-husband Salman Rushdie, ‘all arched-eyebrows’
‘They were Indian kings’
A Sanskrit scholar from America returns to the Mughal court to trace its Indian cultural roots
Europe Reimagined
As three historians return to the bloody evolution of 20th century Europe, we realise how the current cataclysms of a continent make it easier for us to understand its past
Love and Language
Poet-saint Andal’s work proves that she regards the body a site of the sacred as much as the soul
Out of Tune
This translation of Sufi saint Shah Hussein’s work speaks in his voice but not in all its fullness
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