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Olivia Laing: Garden Queen

Nandini Nair

Olivia Laing’s new book examines the idea of paradise. The author and cultural critic speaks about the pleasures of gardens, their hidden costs and the meaning of home

The Man Who Did Not Bend

Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the radical in politics and a gradualist on social reform

The Redeemer’s Rite

Narendra Modi has redefined national freedom as cultural inheritance and civilisational memory

The Modi Dynamism

How the prime minister dismantled one legacy and built another

The Killer Close By

A whiff of Agatha Christie and Umberto Eco in intimate murderers

Nation on Trial

Prayaag Akbar’s new novel is a portrait of online India

Art of Love

Hari Kunzru’s new novel completes his trilogy on creative pursuits. The author speaks to

Fruit of the Nation

Sopan Joshi’s encyclopaedic biography of the mango reveals why it is intrinsic to India. The author in conversation with

The French Connection

Ira Mukhoty uses alternative histories in her portrait of Awadh. She tells how the old Western point of view has become dated

Spittle Parable

A satire set around a paan shop in colonial India

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