BOOK EXCERPT
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Meena Kandasamy’s new novel: A scandalous deepfake video of an Indian Marxist woman goes viral
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In a new book, a doctor provides ways to decide which supplements to take and which to avoid
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‘Akin to Kashmir’: Josy Joseph’s new book recounts the dramatic accession of the North East
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Addiction, disrupted sleep cycle, tech tantrums: This book shows how digital devices affect toddlers
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‘O lord, above all else/ Through my counted years, let my contentment last’: Five poems of recovery
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How Banda Singh Bahadur founded – and defended – the first Sikh empire against the Mughals
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Horror fiction: As hauntings intensify in a haveli, the legend of a cursed queen starts to feel real
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Legal eagle Tushar Mehta recounts instances of the famous British humour as seen in law courts
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A new book examines India’s federal weakening and aggressive centralisation of power
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Fiction: Maria, the narrator’s childhood nurse, turns to the occult to bring back her refugee son
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Why do football fans react so violently when their team loses? A new book looks for answers
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How 19th century Goans who arrived in Zanzibar became one of East Africa’s wealthiest communities
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Daisy Rockwell makes a case for translation as a ‘three-legged race’ and ‘a huge goddamn wedding’
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How ‘incels’ promote extreme ideologies, making social media – and real life – unsafe
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Memoir: A professor from Calcutta posted in Rawalpindi finds himself caught in Partition violence
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Short fiction by Gulzar: A fading actress gets a rude proposal when a stranger visits her at home
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For young readers: A good Samaritan helps a man from an ‘enemy’ community in distress
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In a new book, a queer activist examines the LGBTQIA+ community’s health and mental well-being
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For children: Why kindness and compassion go a long way and make you happy
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This play imagines India’s first woman particle physicist Bibha Chowdhuri’s fight against prejudices
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A new book follows the figure of the yogini from ancient stone carvings to foreign museums
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‘I want to be your bruised prayer’: Poems of love, queerness, and resistance
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A new book recounts how Maruti Vinayak Gokarn built automotive tyre valve-makers Triton
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Mughal romances: When dancer Rana Dil’s love for Dara Shikoh was challenged by Aurangzeb
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Fiction: 18-year-old Shiv is reluctant when he is handpicked by Gandhi to study law in England
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The Nobel Prizes, hygge, crime fiction: How ‘Scandimania’ has taken over the world
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A new book looks at how movements for civil liberties have developed in India
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Fiction: The Great Kanchana Circus is touring Burma when the Japanese bomb Rangoon and Mandalay
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By Ruskin Bond: A boy finds a purple stone that glows in the sunlight. But this is no ordinary stone
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How philosopher KC Bhattacharyya appealed for liberation from British ‘cultural subjection’
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Folktale: The king’s twin princesses might be ill-fated. But they’re determined to live full lives
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In his new book India’s Solicitor General Tushar Mehta studies the bizarre behaviour of AI bots
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This book asks why Kerala, long ruled by the Left, has not succeeded in annihilating caste
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Short fiction: A man and his mother simply wait as persistent pain eats away at his body
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For children: Pandita does not want to lose her memories of her mother, who died a few years ago
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In a new book, Stephen Alter writes about discovering monsoon beetles and bugs as a young naturalist
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Fiction: Ashwini’s mind spirals as denial and loneliness take over when she’s diagnosed with cancer
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For young readers: How wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal
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A new book brings an eyewitness account of Japan’s invasion of North East India during World War Two
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Fiction: Bhushan, a refugee from East Bengal, wanders about Calcutta’s streets searching for himself
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A new book helps women, including single mothers, set realistic financial goals and achieve them
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In this speculative memoir, an academic writes about chronic pain and liminal spaces she exists in
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Children’s picture book: Will Paati’s bedtime story lead to sleep or a midnight dosa adventure?
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‘See how my murshid ... rows us through the world’s chaos’: Poems for every month of the year
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A new book shows India’s pollution emergency has once again got scant attention in the Union Budget
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Horror fiction: Three friends meet the ghost of the emperor and his begum in Qutubpur
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How Vulcan, a hypothetical planet, helped prove Einstein’s theory that gravity is curved spacetime
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‘I identified instinctively with the working woman’s concerns’: Indira Jaising in a new book
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Translated short fiction: Jameel’s outspoken servant, Nazru, puts him in a sticky situation
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Food history: How America (and the world) developed a taste for hot sauce and ‘spicy’ sweets
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This book re-examines India’s economic growth through the frame of employment (or the lack of it)
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Short fiction by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay: Who will conduct the prayers after Aparna leaves?
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In a new book, a genocide scholar examines the transformation of Zionism in Israel
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Apps were meant to streamline Anganwadi data, but they’re depriving some women of benefits
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Fiction: Gulabiya and Balesar’s escape from servitude will shake the very earth they till for others
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For children: Mongoose Ruddy investigates what look like ‘crime scenes’ even if no laws are broken
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This book of queer writing argues that a history of casteism and racism ossified homophobia in India
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Thriller: A novel is transformed into a deadly mind game that pushes logic and imagination
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Kargili cuisine: Tenderness and resilience that endure through marzan and other foods of the region
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In a new book, a writer captures the thrills of a scenic, slow-paced life in her hometown, Nainital
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Fiction: Failed actor Rishi turns into a superstar when he accidentally lands in upside-down Mumbai
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Business case study: How Krack Cream ‘identified’ an everyday problem for women that no one else saw
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‘You must, in some sense, go mad with literature’: Writer Vivek Shanbhag
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Handling routine tasks, virtual assisting, resource management: Can AI make hotel stays better?
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This book explores how the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the siege of Mecca changed Pakistani politics
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Short fiction: A woman leaves her husband to live with a lion-tamer who is both man and woman
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In this book, a cricket fan writes of watching every match of the 2024-’25 Australia-India series
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True story: A victim’s memoir of how a scammer faked cancer and death to deceive thousands
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‘Your voice / wakes the / bird in its cage / inside my ribs’: Five modern-day Sangam love poems
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A new book details innovations in literature, art, music, and architecture in the interwar era
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From the memoir: Mathematician and writer Manil Suri on his childhood in a crumbling Bombay flat
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Fiction: A peek into the minds of commuters from Nalanda Housing Society held at gunpoint in a bus
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Lessons on pride and forgiveness from Yayati, Devayani, and Sharmistha’s tale from the Mahabharata
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‘A butterfly will still be beautiful’: Ruskin Bond, 92 today, writes about his wartime childhood
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Translated fiction: A young man desperately wants to become ‘Bolero Class’, but fate turns rogue
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For children: Pajapati is inconsolable when her sister Maya dies after giving birth to Siddhartha
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Romila Thapar’s memoir: How the historian was made to retire from the Prasar Bharati board
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Mahesh Bhatt on his mother Shrin: ‘The woman who belonged everywhere’
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Fiction: Freshly minted MBA graduate Pawan Pande realises the corporate ladder is more of a maze
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This book argues that leaders weaponise world trade to wage wars and win votes
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Did Britain influence Kashmir’s decision to join India? A new book examines the role of key players
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Short fiction: Dalit women in a Punjab village ward off lecherous dominant-caste men
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‘The self is all pervasive like ether’: A new translation of the Isa Upanisad for the modern reader
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How literary critic DR Nagaraj engaged with 12th-century philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu in his work
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Love stories from the epics: Mandodari’s devotion to her husband Ravana outlives tragedy
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A new book argues women must think of themselves as ‘providers’ and not just financially independent
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This book examines the interplay between Christianity and caste, especially for Dalit women
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Kalki’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan’: Rival factions gather at Kadambur Palace, awaiting crucial decisions
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Children’s picture book: Bittoo has tried everything to stop hiccups, but they just won’t go away
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Life story: What a five-paise reward taught writer Vasudhendra about not being wasteful
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‘A strange reticence / laps at the shores reason’: An elegiac tribute to the impossibility of speech
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In this book a psychologist recalls how a woman ended a relationship over the ‘wrong’ chicken soup
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Will the use of AI make human creativity obsolete? No, says a writer and professor in a new book
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Fiction: Deepa and Ruchi weigh the tangled bonds of their friendship as immigrants in America
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In a new book, an entrepreneur presents a blueprint for building sustainable, profitable start-ups
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This book records the Bhil tribes’ resistance movements against Rajputs, Marathas and the British
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Fiction: London-born Sukanya returns to her ancestral Meerut home, where belonging comes at a price
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Beauty, desire, impermanence: This book examines what the lotus symbolises in Indian classical texts
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A new book explores Bangladesh through what remains of its ancient Buddhist landscape and monuments
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A new book serves 101 cocktail recipes with jalebi, jackfruit seeds and other unusual ingredients