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Mini Kapoor

In appreciation of translators ‘who make the space between languages as small as possible’

Between Landscapes and Dreamscapes

A majestic celebration of the cultural diversity of the subcontinent

Resistance and Resilience

Women characters in the Mahabharata push back against patriarchy in a new interpretation of the epic

Death is a Labyrinth

The logical reasoning of Japanese locked-room mysteries

Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

Akash Kapur’s nonfiction book tells of the quest for utopia in Auroville. He speaks to Nandini Nair about writing history without judgement and the impossibility of an ideal world

Stalin as Metaphor

CP Surendran marshals powerful characters to link the old and the new

Forbidden Intimacies

A debut short story collection from Pakistan lays bare power and desire

Amartya Sen: A Prologue to Greatness

From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom

The Last Days of Márquez

Chronicle of a death retold by a son

The High-Minded Life

A Gandhian prism to the world

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