Dispatches

NIA nabs nine “Pakistan-sponsored” Al Qaeda operatives, six from West Bengal and three from Kerala

Acclaimed fashion designer Sharbari Datta found dead at her residence in Kolkata

Ban on onion export is a betrayal of Centre’s promise, say farmers’ organisations

Farooq Abdullah calls for a more meaningful debate on Kashmir in Parliament

Report exposes increase in atrocities against Dalits; former CJI K.G. Balakrishnan calls for better law enforcement

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announces allowance for Hindu priests

Judge demands contempt action against Tamil actor Suriya for criticism of judiciary in his anti-NEET statement

Umar Khalid arrested as “conspirator” in Delhi riots case

Two medical course aspirants, Jothisri Durga and Aditya, kill themselves in Tamil Nadu on the eve of NEET exam

Medical course aspirant in Madurai, Jothi Durga, kills herself ahead of NEET examination

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For a just world

Shelley Walia

The book provides a realistic picture of the road map that international law must adopt to form robust institutions to ...

Recasting the steel frame

K.S. Subramanian

An “insider” account of the Indian Administrative Service and the various “maladies” that plague Indian bureaucracy.

Two Asian superpowers

Shonaleeka Kaul

The book brings out with admirable clarity all that India and China may have held in common, and much more so their ...

Jainas in Tamil Nadu

The story of Tamil Jainas

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

The book brings into sharp clarity not just the fact of Tamil Jainas but the meaning of identity and the loss by its ...

Ayodhya dispute

Babri Masjid revisited

A.G. Noorani

In his latest book, a former Union Home Secretary analyses the blame game in the Ayodhya dispute over the years and ...

Food for thought

J.N. Sinha

The book explores Mahatma Gandhi’s obsession with diet and food and his experiments and innovations in them to improve ...

Rule of the majority

Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

A volume that attempts to explain why and how the Hindutva project of creating a majoritarian state took off in 2014.

A subaltern history

Sanjukta Das Gupta

The book is the outcome of several decades of serious research and makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of ...

House by the sea

John Thomas

A skilfully crafted book that paints a vivid portrait of the past as it unfolded in the life of the Governor’s house in ...

The practical economist

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

The biography of the economist Ajit Singh is also the history of the tactics neoclassical economists have adopted all ...

The scourge of violence

Shelley Walia

A timely, eloquent series of interviews that interrogate the correlation of violence with gender discrimination, white ...

Woven with dreams

Ziya Us Salam

A delectable anthology of Urdu ghazals in Roman transliteration (and translation) of poets from the late sixteenth ...

Mapping herstories

Abhirami Girija Sriram

A kaleidoscope of conversations with 17 Tamil women on their writerly selves and how they pursue their craft against all ...

Elephants in the wild

Theodore Baskaran

A sparkling new book on Asian elephants allows readers to see different dimensions of this animal that has been close to ...

Of India’s genetic roots

Kesavan Veluthat

A remarkably accessible book about the ethnic foundations of the Indian people, dense with evidence from archaeology, ...

Deccan architecture

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Architectural exploration in the sultanate of Ahmednagar can provide deep insights into the political history of the ...

Trysts with trauma

Ziya Us Salam

Engaging and disturbing narratives, in prose and in verse, about displacement, dispossession and the legacy of ...

Physician par excellence

A.G. NOORANI

This book helps in preparing its reader to face death calmly even as it instructs him in the history of medicine and the ...

Making of the U.N.

K.P. Fabian

This book by an eminent practitioner of multilateral diplomacy is not only for students of international relations and ...

Celebrating an auteur

C.S. Venkiteswaran

The book vividly portrays Girish Kasaravalli as a consummate artist and deals with his body of work in all its thematic ...

Identity and belonging

Sandhya Rao

For Indian readers, particularly, the novel hits bang in the solar plexus: everything said and implied is relevant in ...

All but forgotten

K.P. FABIAN

E.M. Thomas’ book on P.J. Thomas is a valuable contribution in the field of the history of economic thought, a subject ...

Women and caste

T.K. Rajalakshmi

"Gendering Caste" examines the role of women in the perpetuation of caste and the need to go beyond the conventional ...

New electoral dynamics in Bihar

Mohammad Sajjad

The book under review studies election patterns in the State over the 1990-2015 period but leaves out crucial details on ...

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