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Human Bonds

Nachiket Joshi

Kavery Nambisan’s eighth novel, set in rural Karnataka one hundred years ago, tells of status and identity, loss and pursuit

Chitra Subramaniam’s new book, Boforsgate, explains the plot to ‘fix’ the Bachchans

A team of Indian investigators in the Bofors defence deal ‘planted’ the story on Amitabh Bachchan, reveals the Switzerland-based journalist-author in the forthcoming book

Home Lost and Found

Mapping a historic transition in Kashmir which embraces the new while retaining the ancient

Bengal’s Leading Man

Why Satyajit Ray’s favourite actor is special

‘Fiction and Non-Fiction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh’s recent anthology of essays spotlights his three main themes—migration, environment and history. A conversation with the author

Cultural Memory

Excavating the Kannada intellectual history

A True Pioneer

The rare Indian who rose high in the Kenyan civil service

Unbelievably True

How a debut author’s romance novel sold 1,50,000 copies within a month of its release

The Moral Inverted

Pankaj Mishra’s argument against Israel is for the already converted

Haunted Spectres

Eleven stories that tell of refuge and exile

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