A Feminist Life

The Public Archaeologist

In this account of MN Deshpande, the late iconic chief of ASI, Nayanjot Lahiri surpasses her own high standards in history writing

Dharma Forest

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Spying

John le Carré told us, was strictly a thinking man’s profession

High Stakes

A history of the Himalayas from the earliest inhabitants to its present conflicts

A Malabar Saga

Turning an epic conceit into a historical drama

Terms of Enchantment

A character sketch of Kolkata’s iconic Coffee House

A Writer and the Art of Memory

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi writes a succinct meditation on old age and death and the doors it opens for those left behind

Delicious Diversity

Shylashri Shankar captures the Indian culinary identity in all its complexity and multiplicity