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The Right Rebels

Vinay Lal

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

The Endearing Paradoxes of Vajpayee

Sagarika Ghose brings out the qualities and contradictions of India’s most indulged prime minister in a new biography

Pankaj Mishra : Polemist as Novelist

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel that chronicles rapid urbanisation in an unequal India. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s hollow men and class wars

The Magic of Mermaids

Sharanya Manivannan uses fantastical elements to talk about Sri Lanka’s trauma

Theatre of the Everyday

S Hareesh’s short stories highlight his ability to work in the epic and mundane mode at the same time

The Door Closes

When you marry a narcissist

Meeting Our Doppelgängers with Hervé Le Tellier

‘The Anomaly’ and the possibilities of the novel

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