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A Leader Comes Home

Aditya Sinha

PV Narasimha Rao, one of India’s most misunderstood prime ministers, finally gets a biography he deserves

Handsome Revelations

A psychoanalyst’s hands-on approach to civilisation

Drawn Eloquent

Comics gets serious in a collection of narrative essays

Siddhartha Murkherjee : The Night-side of Life

Cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Murkherjee highlights the importance of tenderness in scientific inquiry and the many meanings of ‘normal’

Fat and Furious

Activist Lindy West speaks out against a culture where bigness is seen as a moral failing

Out of Africa

The frailties and fantasies of this Man Booker shortlisted novel make it a quiet classic

Beauty and Beasts in Nepal

Manjushree Thapa creates a breathtaking landscape that can be both hostile and affectionate towards the people who bustle in and out

The Heart of Revolution

KR Meera’s new novella is born of an early fascination with Naxalism and freedom

Alexander von Humboldt: An Early Green Warrior

Rediscovering Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th century scientist and humanist who first understood the web of life

An Epic Plea For Sovereign Words

When free speech is not an idealised abstraction but a practical pursuit. A user's guide by Timothy Garton Ash

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