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Queen of the World

Swapna Liddle

The female power of the Mughal Empire

Anita Desai: Insider Outsider

The Mexico of Anita Desai has an Indian core that remains resonant to this day

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi: ‘To be truly adult is to be child-like’

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi has written a fable of arranged marriages and spiritual quests

Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

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

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