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 explores the idea of India through the profiles of fifty Indians who shaped history
The tumult of the 17th century led to a breakdown of systems but also to greater freedom and even greater innovation
Essays by Feluda fans on their affection for Satyajit Ray’s enduring detective
Kanishk Tharoor creates fiction not from a castle of fancies but from the realm of history
The best of crime fiction tells us that murder is sometimes the solution to greater malevolence
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’
A Sanskrit scholar from America returns to the Mughal court to trace its Indian cultural roots
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