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Friends or Foes?

Siddharth Singh

Paul Staniland decodes government responses to armed groups

String Theory

The warp and weft of the Indian subcontinent

Life’s Longing for Itself

Sport and religion play out on the badminton court

‘Writing Is Somewhat a Masochistic Activity’

M Mukundan’s award-winning biography of a city reveals Delhi’s underbelly with compassion. The author tells Antara Raghavan why a river of sorrow runs beneath his stories

Dignity for All

The changing status of transgenders in India

The Rustle of Arguments

Beloved fiction writers turn to nonfiction, celebrities turn into memoirists and historians travel in time

The Garden of Forking Paths

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels

Goodbye 2021 and Good Riddance

A spy among friends and bonding with Ian Fleming

Mapping the Nation

A behind-the-scenes account of the creation of India’s states and Union Territories

Dateline History

Tariq Ali reports from the fault lines of Afghanistan to make sense of its current trauma

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