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Amol Palekar: India’s Everyman

Kaveree Bamzai

In his memoir Amol Palekar recounts the many iconic roles he has played, from the boy next door to the villain at home. The actor and director in conversation with

The Doubting Believer

Madhulika Liddle

A portrait of India’s first woman anthropologist

Failing History

Shaan Kashyap

A defence of an excessively demonised Nehru cannot itself be a one-sided affair

Upamanyu Chatterjee wins the JCB Prize for Literature

Antara Raghavan

Literature Is its Own Award

Kraków: Living in a Metaphor

Sabin Iqbal

Like a well-crafted novel, Kraków reveals its secrets slowly, inviting repeated visits, rewarding careful attention. Sabin Iqbal gets into the city’s literary soul