Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘The state will come after the defenceless’ ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ is on the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist.
A passage to Japan The author’s gift is to walk through the doors of other people’s homes and discover their inner lives.
Old plot, new yarn The author has chosen to revive the century-old Bhawal case, interweaving facts with fiction.
A rereading of Kerala modernity The mongraph revisits the all-encompassing influence of the Left but also lays bare its weaknesses.
The fragment in history It seeks to foreground the unextraordinary, neglected pieces of evidence in the history writing of early India.
What the Romans can teach usA.G. NOORANITwo ancient volumes on politics that are strikingly relevant to modern times, especially to the Indian situation.
Planning failuresJournalist-economist D.K. Rangnekar’s impressions of the economic policies of the first three and a half decades after Independence.
Mapping SahmatANIL BHATTIThe book traces how Sahmat, an avant-garde experiment, offers an aesthetic of resistance in times of fundamental transition.
For radical freedomThe book, comprising 12 speeches Angela Davis delivered between 1994 and 2009, brings out her philosophy of freedom and justice.
Nuclear posturingK.P. FABIANThe book raises pertinent questions about nuclear forces, keeping the big picture in mind.
Panoramic pastLyla BavadamThe book showcases treasures from the ASI’s archives—among them, works of well-known photographers, some never published before.
The future of EgyptA.G. NOORANIA book no student of the region can afford to ignore. It helps one understand the nature of the contradictory forces at play.
Pilgrims’ IndiaSHONALEEKA KAULThe book contends that there is a third dimension beyond the textual and political to both the idea and reality of India.
Flawed greatnessA.G. NOORANITwo volumes that cover, among other things, a period of tension in India-China relations over the boundary issue and Nehru’s role in it.
Migrants and cultureSAGNIK DUTTAThe essays will be of immense value to students of diaspora studies as they encompass significant cultural transformations over a long period of histo
Muslim bogeyA. G. NooraniThe book provides powerful intellectual tools to Indian secularists in the struggle against reducing Muslims to “the other” in polity.
Insider's tale Ayodhya and Narasimha RaoA.G. NOORANIAn insider’s account of why P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister did not act to prevent or stop the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
