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Alone and Away

Urvashi Butalia

Taslima Nasrin’s unending search for home

A War in Memory

A debut novelist from Sri Lanka returns to war-torn Jaffna in search of questions history has not resolved

The Forgotten Battle

Restoring the battle of Imphal to its rightful place in the history of World War II

Free Spirit

A memoir that straddles the personal and the political, the intimate and the public

Shedunnit

A lady detective who is a social worker and public trouble-shooter rolled into one

Along the White Clouds

The eternity of Himalayan pursuits

Funny Moms

Mommy memoirs are no longer about bringing up children

Who Will Win the Booker?

With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.

An Epic Finale

Bibek Debroy concludes his Mahabharata series with a cosmic flourish

Jesus, Coetzee Is at It Again

He is one of the greatest novelists of his time, but his late novels take him to a grim elsewhere, baffling his devotees

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