history
Water Kingdoms
Suneetha Balakrishnan
Indo-Roman ocean trade told through the stories of patricians and plebeians
Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith
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
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