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Murder In The Madras Zoo

Mukund Padmanabhan

A beastly tale from World War II

Water Kingdoms

Suneetha Balakrishnan

Indo-Roman ocean trade told through the stories of patricians and plebeians

The Banality of Comparative Evil

S Prasannarajan

Desperately seeking the sword of Hindutva

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

The Pursuits of the Past

TCA Raghavan

A problematic passage to the national soul

Why is Bollywood like this only?

Amit Khanna

A deep dive into the structure of Hindi cinema

An Objective History

Vinay Lal

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

The Limits of Leadership

Shashi Tharoor

Is the role of the individual in history overestimated?

The Sangh and Modernity

Ram Madhav

RSS is an idea that is still evolving

What’s Past is Prologue

Shashi Tharoor

Listen to the whispers of history and be warned

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Murder In The Madras Zoo

Water Kingdoms

The Banality of Comparative Evil

Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

The Pursuits of the Past

Why is Bollywood like this only?

An Objective History

The Limits of Leadership

The Sangh and Modernity

What’s Past is Prologue

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