history
Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith
Nandini Nair
Akash Kapur’s nonfiction book tells of the quest for utopia in Auroville. He speaks to Nandini Nair about writing history without judgement and the impossibility of an ideal world
An Objective History
Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future
The Tragedy of a Few Good Men
Malcolm Gladwell’s new book examines one of the great moral challenges of World War II and the price of different actions
The Amritsar Massacre
An account of the carnage that shook the country in 1919, and wounded its consciousness
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