books

Bant Singh: Notes of Defiance

Chatura Rao

An ode to the Dalit singer Bant Singh explores the beauty and bloodiness of Punjab

Stripped to the Core

Rosalyn D’Mello

Is writing a memoir worth the sacrifice, the self-shaming, the self-aggrandising?

Onward and Upward

Ranjit Lal

This celebration of Indian birds is a treasure chest that might even kick-start a lifelong passion in readers

Vivek Shanbhag: Family Matters

Nandini Nair

Vivek Shanbhag has written a finely-woven novel which tells of the machinations of work and money, prosperity and globalisation through the story of a family

Hillary Clinton: “I can play with the boys now”

Karen Blumenthal

The story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, ‘an exasperating little girl’ who wished to become an astronaut

And the Mountains Echoed

Mohit Satyanand

A journey to the Himalayas that everyone dreams of but few undertake

City as Visual Metaphor

Deepika Sorabjee

An exploration of Chandigarh brings together unexpected works and undiscovered connections

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

Siddharth Singh

Kaushik Basu’s new book bears tell-tale signs of a text that has evolved over time

The Dangerous Dozen

MJ Akbar

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