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Dateline Rwanda

Frances Harrison

A journalist brilliantly uses his craft to make sense of a post-genocide society where mass denial is a way of life

Sunil Khilnani: Past Master

Sunil Khilnani explores the idea of India through the profiles of fifty Indians who shaped history

The Age of Genius

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’

An Empire Redeemed

Audrey Truschke goes deep into the fundamental flaws of Hindu-Mulsim distrust

‘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

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