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Religious War Inc
Siddharth Singh
The life of an extraordinary jihadist and where it fits in the sweep of history
An Idea Between the Covers
America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade
The Philosopher Who Would Be King
It is hard not to think that India would have been a very different country under Dara Shukoh
A Courtesan’s Tale
A journalistic exercise on tawaifs, which also provides a history of sexuality, secularism and ‘propriety’ in India
A New Nepal Terracotta Tablet Predates Mahabharata to Harappa Culture
The terracotta plaque represents Krishna and Arjuna in the epic battle
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