books

Living With China

Shivshankar Menon

New Delhi has a chance to build coalitions of the willing to shape Beijing’s behaviour

Haruki Murakami: Enchanter Emeritus

Mini Kapoor

The familiar and the fantastical permeate a new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami

NIF: Idea to Book

Antara Raghavan

Eleven recipients are awarded The New India Foundation’s prestigious non-fiction writing grant

In the Visitor’s Shadow

Mini Kapoor

Is tourism the most important industry of the century?

The Son’s Rise

Madhavankutty Pillai

Uddhav Thackeray’s unexpected survival and success

Wanted: A New Capitalism

Ullekh NP

Mariana Mazzucato argues that in the post-pandemic world governments need to shape innovation rather than merely fix market failures

The Garden of Ghalib

Aditya Mani Jha

Scholars continue to chase the motives and metaphors of the poet

The Testament of a Poet

Nandini Nair

Jeet Thayil’s new novel chronicles the women whose roles were deleted from the gospels. The author speaks to Nandini Nair about the need to write these erasures

Chasing the Elephant’s Shadow

Rahul Pandita

Badri Narayan’s book throws new light on the RSS. The author tells Rahul Pandita how the organisation is trying to inculcate a vision of modernity coupled with traditional wisdom