Manil Suri: ‘Mathematics can trigger an emotional response’ In conversation with the mathematician and author of ‘The Big Bang of Numbers’.
To Sri Lanka, with love Shehan Karunatilaka’s complex relationship with home infuses the stories in this book with heart.
Tree story This expansive novel’s gifts are not easy to explain but will stay with you for a long time.
Saving Angelo da Fonseca It validates his attempts to forge a hybrid art that was neither completely Western nor Indian.
The advocate vanishes This unputdownable true crime story reconstructs a 1980s’ political murder in Karnataka.
New books on the shelves A range of refreshing reads, from South Africa’s slave ship history to Ambedkar up close and personal.
Book Review Book Review: 'The Multivalence of an Epic' retells the many Ramayanas of South India and Southeast AsiaRaziuddin AquilThe book perceptively brings out the plurality and inclusiveness that mark the diverse Ramayana traditions traversing over two millennia and across wi
Interview: Prof Upinder Singh ‘Love jehad is a pernicious recent invention’Ziya Us SalamInterview with Professor Upinder Singh, author and Professor of History, Ashoka University.
Book Review Book Review: Dinkar P. Srivastava's "Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control" sheds light on PoKK.P. FabianThis book fills an important gap in scholarship on the history and current state of the portion of Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan illegally oc
Book Review Colonising gender identity Susan Ram Two new books, both by authors critical of gender identity ideology, take on the challenge of exploring the tide of sex denialism currently sweeping a
Interview Prakash Louis: ‘We need many more Stan Swamys’ Ziya Us SalamInterview with Prakash Louis, author of Fr. Stan Swamy: A Maoist or a Martyr?.
Book Review Book Review: On Sikkim, India’s 22nd StateK.P. FabianThe book, which brings out many little-known facts, is a valuable addition to the rather small number of books on Sikkim’s history and how it became a
Review Ma Anand Sheela's tryst with lifeSachidananda MohantyBy My Own Rules is a memoir that chronicles former Osho disciple Ma Anand Sheela’s journey of life: her search for paradise lost and found.
Interview: Manoranjan Byapari Manoranjan Byapari: ‘My journey has just begun’ Ziya Us SalamInterview with Manoranjan Byapari, rickshaw wallah-turned-writer-turned Trinamool Congress MLA.
Book Review Book Review: Devesh Verma’s novel “The Politician” is about one man’s quest for unbridled powerShafey KidwaiA novel about one man’s quest for unbridled power, which warns us not to make politics a matter of emotional calling.
Interview: Shafey Kidwai Syed Ahmad Khan: The 'shaper of India’s collective consciousness’Ziya Us SalamInterview with Shafey Kidwai, the author of 'Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation'.
Book Review: 'Social Sector Development in North-East India' delves into the ‘social’ in the regionDixita DekaThe way the region has been governed since colonial times shapes the narratives of underdevelopment of the social sector in the present time.
Book Review: ‘A Red-necked Green Bird’ is Tamil writer Ambai’s many-feathered fiction in translationAbhirami Girija SriramA clutch of variegated, life-affirming stories to read and revisit as we emerge from an age of forced social isolation.
Why I have great expectations from the Bharat Jodo Yatra It could help one understand the rise of authoritarian forces and the need to connect with people.
SlideshowColours of desireA mother’s sari collection feels like an act of vengeance against a life that had deprived her of small joys in her youth.
