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The Many Tongues of the Forest

Antara Raghavan

Sheela Tomy’s novel tells the stories of the land and its people. She speaks to Open about bringing the Western Ghats alive in fiction

Catch Them Young

Children’s fiction in India dares to echo the cultural arguments of the times

Nirmal Verma: A Moral Life

The making of the writer Nirmal Verma

Tricoloured Memories

Oral histories that conjure up the varied experiences of 1947

Booker prize 2022: The Final Six

The novels shortlisted for the Booker prize 2022 use humour, horror and heart as strategy

Languorous Unfoldings

An anthology by young writers that spans Mughal nostalgia to present dystopias

Speaking from the Cloisters

A chronicle of the life of a nun and her fight for justice

The Rewards of Ambition

How India moved from coercive controls to economic freedom

Mapping the Hindu Mind

Understanding VD Savarkar’s political thought through his idea of history

Jawaharlal Nehru: The Man and the Myth

The rediscovery of Jawaharlal Nehru

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