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The Consort
Manu S Pillai
The story of Lalitamba Bayi and Kerala Varma is no ordinary love story. It tells of many political machinations and the slow unravelling of the matrilineal court in Travancore
The Savant from Ithaca
Kaushik Basu’s new book bears tell-tale signs of a text that has evolved over time
The Dangerous Dozen
One misconception foisted by moral science classes is that we learn best from the lives of the worthy. There is at least as much, if not more, to be learned from excess and depravity
Get Back Jo
The Pulitzer-winning author finds a new but unstable address in her latest non-fiction work
Undercover
A vivid picture of war, diplomacy and covert action which suggests that contrary to general belief, the proverbial foreign hand doesn’t have a finger in every pie
Helen Macdonald: “We suffer in silence for the most part”
Helen Macdonald talks about ‘the archaeology of grief’, the influence of Shakespeare and why parrots are vindictive. Excerpts from an interview with Nandini Nair
Steve McCurry: “You are delighted and horrified in India. You are never bored here. It takes you on a journey of discovery”
Steve McCurry speaks to Open about the perils of globalisation, his love for the monsoons and what’s next. Excerpts
Poetic Justice
A political thriller that bears the quiet elegance of its erudition with remarkable lightness
God and Machine
Technology creates circles of hell in Manjula Padmanabhan’s latest in a science fiction series
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