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Stalin as Metaphor

Ullekh NP

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

Speaking Trees

The web between humans and the natural world

Irwin Allan Sealy: The Kingmaker

Irwin Allan Sealy’s new book is about Ashoka. The novelist tells Bhavya Dore why his king belongs to the modern times

Anindita Ghose: Waiting for the Light

The political adds a darker edge to Anindita Ghose’s first novel

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: ‘Films Are Like Your Best Friends’

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, director of ground-breaking movies, relives his spectacular success and noble failures

It’s the Economy, Stupid!

A star economist recounts his experience as a policy wonk

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