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Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Namita Gokhale's true fiction about the most interesting and least known characters of a lit fest

An East-West Encounter

An anecdotal account of yoga’s journey from an ancient road to enlightenment to a wellness industry

Nationalist Anthem

The Gandhian way of music

The Legend of Kuttanad

This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them

A Tale of Two Menons

Comparing VK and VP is odious. They made the best of what destiny offered them

The Good Fight

How a woman reclaimed her life from an abusive marriage

Scientist as Socialist

Samanth Subramanian portrays the many lives of JBS Haldane to perfection

Woody Allen: Writer Blocked

The withdrawal of the filmmaker’s book from publication reopens a debate on cancel culture

Trauma in Red Tape

A physician-scientist writes a social satire plus supernatural drama set in an unnamed Indian village

Poet of the Paradoxical City

Akhil Katyal tells Urvashi Bahuguna how he finds Delhi crazily unequal and maddeningly beautiful

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