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Women and Violence

Aditi Saraf

Giving flesh and form to statistics and anecdotes from Kashmir

The Last Runner

How a broken beast won hearts and races

The Philosopher Who Would Be King

It is hard not to think that India would have been a very different country under Dara Shukoh

Check In, Check Out

Demystifying the Indian hotel industry

From the Spectral Island

Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts

The Art of Loss

A widower’s weekend of highs and lows in Bombay

Politics of Meat

Updating Ambedkar’s understanding of how untouchability came to be and what it has become today

Maps and Mavericks

A well-rounded and engaging summary of how Imperial Russia and Great Britain tussled over Central Asia

Capital Saga

Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, set in a slum in metropolitan India, has the pace of a thriller and the heart of a children’s tale

The Colony Writes Back

A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists

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