My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: William Dalrymple, Author

Best of 2019: My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | David Davidar | William Dalrymple | Aatish Taseer | Shashi Tharoor | Tishani Doshi | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Srinath Raghavan | Arshia Sattar | KR Meera | Keerthik Sasidharan | Sudeep Paul

East India Company: The Evil Empire

The White-Brown nexus comes alive in William Dalrymple’s compelling portrait of the East India Company

Namita Gokhale, 63, William Dalrymple, 54, Sanjoy Roy, 57, JLF Directors

Literary impresarios

Best of Books 2018: My Choice

William Dalrymple | Tishani Doshi | Srinath Raghavan | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Arshia Sattar | Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Open Diary

Spotting Chatwin and Other Delights in Jaipur

Tishani Doshi keeps an ear out at the world’s biggest literary carnival

Best Books of 2017: My Choice

MJ Akbar | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | Amit Chaudhuri | Aatish Taseer | Tishani Doshi | KR Meera | Vivek Shanbhag | TCA Raghavan

JLF 2017: Wordscapes

We present the faces that launched a million stories from the JLF 2017's tenth edition. Photographs by Rohit Chawla

Books: Best of 2016

From the architecture of the gene to the oral histories of men and women in the former USSR, this year’s best books reveal what it is to be human