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Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

Devapriya Roy

The lives of poets and explorers in the twilight of the Raj

Open Diary

London books shops, Abir Mukherjee’s crime fiction and a sense of history

Infinite Passions

The many shades and shapes of love come alive in this exploration of Hinduism

Naipaul’s Reckoning With Empire

The Nobel laureate’s legacy has much to say to charges of amnesia about colonialism

The Fifth Gospel

A forgotten biography of Jesus that was written for Akbar

Ravi Agrawal: Karmic Connection

Online India needs to be a country in conversation with itself. Ravi Agrawal tells Aresh Shirali why

When Gandhi Played Dronacharya

Sardar Patel’s loyalty to the Mahatma and Nehru’s rise to the top

JK Rowling: The Colour of Murder

Evil and redemption take centrestage as JK Rowling in the guise of Robert Galbraith returns for her fourth Cormoran Strike novel

AM Homes: Where Weird is Wonderful

AM Homes, a master of suburban Gothic noir, explores the existential question of how to live and how to be

Shock Therapy

The collapse of global financial markets in 2008 has left a trail of political wreckage in its wake

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