BOOK EXCERPT
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Fiction: Aria arrives in New Delhi on a quest to find the mother whom she once believed to be dead
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For children: Can Tam, Ant, and the ghost detective solve the case of the unknown stench?
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What are some of the major barriers urban Indian women face in owning land?
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Why are so many young Indians trading in cryptocurrency, especially in tier-two cities?
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‘If tomorrow comes, I will be the ash-heap of today’: Poems of enquiry into self and personhood
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For children: A new book presents short biographies of 50 Indians who received Padma awards
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A new book examines the groundwater crisis – and its politics – in Gujarat
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This novella is written as a letter to god from a 16-year-old girl who has just been married
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In his new book, journalist Boria Majumdar addresses BCCI’s two-year ban after an online controversy
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A new book covers overburdened public hospitals, expensive private hospitals, and healthcare ethics
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‘...Echoing around, etched in the edifice’: This artist’s poetry is inspired by her paintings
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For children: Mum starts acting very strangely after breaking a coffee jar. What is Vishi to do?
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A new book shows how political parties are using social media influencers to amplify their messages
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Fiction: An ageing writer gets a mysterious letter which begins to colour his entire perception
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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Democracy: A new book questions whether the people (or the experts) are always right
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A novel in dialogue: Two strangers share a flat in the maddening city of Mumbai
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Parsi theatre: How female impersonators controlled the female body and its representation on stage
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Novoneel Chakraborty’s thriller: A girl looks for her sister who went missing from an elite school
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What children can learn from the stunning animal carvings on the rocks of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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Fiction: Mahmud and Ayaz travel from Somnath to Kashmir as questions of citizenship arise
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An online content creator explains in her book why it’s better to learn from peers than to compete
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Business history: How Jaypee Infratech’s stalled construction projects left homebuyers in the lurch
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‘We can remake this world’: This book of poems travels through places where people rise in protest
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A new book shows how high Emotional Quotient and empathy makes women natural leaders
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What were Rabindranath Tagore’s views on the proposal of a memorial at the Jallianwala Bagh?
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Speculative short fiction: Grounded airships, storms, and a love that could have been
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This banker’s memoir recounts his journey from a junior officer to executive director
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A Bharat Jodo participant recalls what went into organising the mammoth journey on foot
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Short fiction: Riddled with debt, a farmer urges the PM to change the formula for compound interest
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Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book is about orchestral compositions for Indian ragas masters
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Fiction: Ram Mohan realises the only way to live a respectable life is to hold some kind of power
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A new book tells you why, and how, to consume coconut (and other ‘superfoods’)
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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Fiction: The body of a young woman, her insides split open, is found inside a farmhouse near Delhi
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A new book asks how (and whether) the government has responded to sexism and violence against women
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Translated fiction: A young law officer hustles and fumbles to win the coveted title of Rai Bahadur
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For children: Why is a poor fisherman being framed for the disappearance of endangered turtles?
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‘The untouchable is not a citizen’: Why BR Ambedkar wanted political representation for lower castes
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Fiction: Abbas must retrieve a wooden tiger he made for Tipu Sultan, which the British plundered
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Why the financial sector reforms introduced over three decades ago are still a work in progress
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‘My toes pirouette on the waves’: A new book of poems blurs the boundaries of place and time
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Why do many Ayurvedic doctors consider bhang a ‘medicine’? A new book tries to find answers
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By Paulo Coelho: A new book of parables on faith, self-reflection, and transformation
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From cricketer Shane Watson’s new book: To succeed, one has to conquer the ‘beast’ of expectation
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A new biography profiles Nandini Satpathy, the former Odisha chief minister and fiction writer
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Fiction: Maya’s elaborate tricks to ward off a billionaire who has his eyes set on her sister’s home
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Indian architecture: What was the influence of colonial styles on Indian bungalows?
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Why property and private vehicles should be taxed higher in India for equitable urban development
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Mythological fiction: The Chendur battle has enervated Aambal. Will she find her way to words again?
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A psychiatrist’s book tells parents how they can help children have healthy gaming habits
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Earthquakes in India: The 2004 tsunami was not the first of its kind and certainly won’t be the last
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Translated short fiction: A woman plunges into panic and depression after reading the newspaper
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For children: Students consider the pros and cons of democracy as school elections get closer
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What role did marriage play in the Suchitra Sen-Uttam Kumar screen pairing?
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‘The spirit of a writer must be open as the sky’: Kazi Nazrul Islam on how to write great literature
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Fiction: A zamindar’s young bride is possessed by a she-demon while the great famine ravages Bengal
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Women must learn to say ‘no’ to live longer, happier, and healthier, says a new book
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What is worktech? A new book examines how effective digital productivity tools are in the workplace
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How do autorickshaw drivers (in Kolkata) perceive sexual harassment on public transport?
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This short story by Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ questions the ideals of marriage and love
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Miss Malini’s new book reveals how she built a business from blogging and social media
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This biography of the former WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan presents her journey
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Short fiction: A 79-year-old widow is shocked by her desire to dress up like a bride on her birthday
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For children: In these retellings of classic fairy tales, the protagonists are disabled women
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Travel politics: Is ‘passportism’ being turned into a sly tool of racism and Islamophobia?
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Fiction: A middle-aged Nepali man comes to terms with his sexuality in an orthodox social system
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A new book talks about the rich legacy of Zoroastrian fire temples in Udwada, Gujarat
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A new book tells the story of the Indian freedom movement through the lives of five key players
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From the biography: Ram Vilas Paswan’s role in implementing the Mandal Commission report
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EBRD Literature Prize shortlist: This Arabic novel explores the struggle to make sense of death
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An Indian journalist recalls the day President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul as the Taliban took over
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Bhima Koregaon: A new book recounts how 16 activists were imprisoned as terrorists, without trial
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Fiction by Damodar Mauzo: Love helps Vipin find a separate identity from his cold, unloving family
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Biography: When theatre director Ebrahim Alkazi turned the terrace of his home into an auditorium
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How did Bihar, once the cradle of civilisation, devolve into a state of crime, poverty, and misrule?
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Fiction: Will Poppy and Tariq be able to sustain their love in a dystopian state?
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From the memoir: A Gurkha soldier’s childhood in the treacherous mountains of Nepal
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When P Sainath met Jagdhishwar Jeet Singh, the ‘man-eating’ landlord of Jharkhand
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How Manoj Bajpayee tried and tried to get into the National School of Drama
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‘The women cower / Hide like roaches’: Poems on living and working as a woman in a violent world
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A new book suggests two ways in which writers can make their work ‘relevant’ for busy readers
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Does the Citizenship Amendment Act draw its provenance from the ideology of Hindutva?
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Fiction: Lahiri Bari is a house of many secrets and contested legacies of injustice, love, and pain
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Abanindranath Tagore’s stories for children about the Sun Dynasty of Mewar get new English versions
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A new book profiles art critic Rudolf von Leyden, champion of India’s emerging avant-garde painters
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Fiction: Lucky’s sister dies unexpectedly, and all of a sudden her cat starts speaking to him
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A new book explains the differences between acute pain, chronic pain, and chronic pain syndrome
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How Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay used art to establish solidarity between newly independent countries
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‘A special dignity characterised her personality’: Qurratulain Hyder’s pen portrait of actor Nargis
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Thriller: A foreign couple with powerful connections is abducted while trekking in the Kumaon
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Using a real-life example, a doctor shows how music can help in the treatment of Alzheimer’s
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Why is India’s consumer market (undeservedly) called underdeveloped? A new book refutes the idea
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Fiction: An unnamed narrator wants to take revenge on the man who molested his sister 30 years ago
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History of money: How did the Roaring Twenties in America fade out?
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In his new book, Sam Pitroda examines whether capitalism can allow a true democracy to prosper
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Fiction: Beneath the veneer of civility lies a hotbed of secrets of residents of a chic apartment