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A century’s worth of Bengali stories in translation, a study of a pioneering Indian sculptor, and many more.
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Sisters under the skin
Manju Kapur’s latest novel is an exploration of the lives of women: their inclinations and desires, and their compromises.
Shuma Raha
Book Review
The handlers of death
In Fire on the Ganges, Radhika Iyengar unveils the lives and struggles of Varanasi’s Dom community.
Karan Madhok
Book Review
Forest of memories
Banana Yoshimoto’s novel is about disturbing secrets at the heart of families and the possibility of negotiating with them to find closure
Geeta Doctor
Book Review
The king who dared to apologise
In Olivelle’s book, Mauryan king Asoka stands out as an icon whose legacy must be upheld at a time when violence and aggression seem to be the norm.
R. Mahalakshmi
Essay
Served raw: How poetry from north-eastern India captures the trauma of everyday violence
In sparse, clinical language, it asks vexed questions of identity and struggle.
Nabina Das
Book Review
Tastes of the earth
Disarmingly honest, Food Journey is very different from the gushing food books that come out every second day.
Anusua Mukherjee
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Small is bountiful
In her new book Lilliput Land, Rama Bijapurkar highlights India’s micro-consumer miracle.
Mridula Vijayarangakumar
Sheikh Abdullah: The controversial Bab of Kashmir
A new perspective on the life of a man who rose from obscurity to become one of Kashmir’s greatest leaders, only to become a casualty of his egomania.
Khawar Khan Achakzai
The day Afghans knew Kabul would fall to the Taliban, again
As Afghanistan again fell into the Taliban’s hands following the withdrawal of US forces, Nayanima Basu was one of the few Indian journalists present.
Nayanima Basu
New books on the shelves
Fiction about the idea of belonging and exile, non fiction about the idea of Asia, and much more.
Meena Kandasamy: ‘A poet says what’s on their mind’
The poet, writer, and activist says poetry helps people make sense of what they have lived.
Aditya Mani Jha
The war that never was
Nimbly, and often wittily, Mukund Padmanabhan’s The Great Flap of 1942 recounts the mad exodus from Madras during the Second World War.
Parvati Sharma
Maps of the mind
Reading Jayant Kaikini’s stories, one feels the pull of Mumbai, a city one can hate but never escape from.
Khorshed Deboo
Brinda Karat: Communist with a bindi
Characterised by a lack of self-indulgence, this memoir narrates a story that describes her mission to end exploitation in the world.
Smita Gupta
Close encounters with the third kind
Dream Machine: AI and the Real World is a praiseworthy attempt to create a hybrid narrative fusing polemic, meditation, and fiction.
Anil Menon
Female furious: Why women’s anger is demonised
Pragya Agarwal’s Hysterical explores how social conditioning, not biology, shapes how we express ourselves, and why women pay the price for anger.
Bhavya Dore
Snakeman: The origin story
Romulus Whitaker’s Snakes, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll is a delightful tale of his exciting wildlife adventures and enduring love for India.
Divya Gandhi
Bumps ahead in this Taxi ride
Old fans of Manjula Padmanabhan should probably sit out this novel and wait for the next one.
Latha Anantharaman
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