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The Normality of Evil

Nandini Nair

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s seventh novel opens with the discovery of a dead body in a park. He speaks to Nandini Nair about creating crafty characters and the villainy principle

Home Alone in Kerala

Lockdown satire by an insider outsider

An Imprisoned Mind

A fractured memoir that is as much about madness as it is about writing

Isabel Allende: The Reckoning

Isabel Allende’s new novel is about a woman steeped in history

The Hoot and Call of Books

The 15th Jaipur Literature Festival was more intimate in scale and more Indian in content

Power and Religion

The complex evolution of cultures and societies in the Deccan

The Right Rebels

Pramod Kapoor restores the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny to its proper place in the history of the freedom struggle

A Nicer Holocaust?

The ban on Art Spiegelman’s book is a case of conservative ignorance meeting woke cancel culture

We Were Bereft. As Daughters. And As Citizens

A journalist’s personal, yet universal, grief during the pandemic

The Poet Patriot

The moral and political life of Jagat Narain Lal

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