BOOK EXCERPT
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‘What does the security of the nation mean when the security of its women is at risk?’
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Humans compete with AI in this science fiction novel set in 2095. But someone’s out to get the human
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Book excerpt: My jaw hit the floor, no one moved – Ravi Shastri on MS Dhoni’s Test retirement
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Remembering the massacre at Turkman Gate: From a memoir of the Emergency
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BR Ambedkar in London: A thesis completed, a treaty concluded, a ‘bible’ of India promised
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Why Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Satya’ still matters 23 years after its release
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‘Alipura’: The definitive novel of Bundelkhand, funny and tender, can now be read in English
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A new book recreates the exploits of the Indian Army at Rezang La during the 1962 war with China
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‘Earthspinner’: Anuradha Roy’s intricate new novel is centred on a potter and a horse he creates
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How Jayaprakash Narayan began the mass movement that led to Indira Gandhi’s ouster
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How did the Mistrys of the Shapoorji Pallonji group manage to acquire shares in the Tata Group?
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Crime and the single, independent woman: This novel asks uncomfortable questions
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From Farrukh Dhondy’s memoir: A blow hot blow cold encounter with VS Naipaul
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‘What does it mean to be born in a graveyard?’: Three poems from Tishani Doshi’s new book of poetry
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How did the makers of the Indian Constitution view patriotism for Indian citizens?
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‘How to Feel’: This books asks whether the increased use of touch can declutter the mind
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‘Beyond the Stars’: Stories Qurratulain Hyder wrote in her teens
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‘Educated unemployment’: The crisis that defines millennials more than any other demographic
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A new collection presents the short fiction of Assamese writer Harekrishna Deka in all its urgency
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‘Vimukta: Freedom Stories’ chronicles the accounts of tribes freed from their criminal tags
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‘Congress Radio’: This book recounts how the underground radio of India’s freedom movement was run
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A novel that asks what a young woman’s life is like when there only men around her
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Neither Ram Rajya nor golden Vedic age: Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) on the history of a casteless future
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‘How did you go from that to marrying him?’ Romance writer Nikita Singh’s new book of love stories
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A new book explores the fascinating geography (and history) of Hazaribagh in Chhotanagpur
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‘Radiant Fugitives’: This novel is told from the point of view of a child at the moment of his birth
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How Zohra Segal, 48-year-old mother of two, reinvented herself in London
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How Dolly Thakore stumbled into television and came to be known as ‘Kavita Mehta’
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Book excerpt: World Cup jeetna hai – Rohit Sharma’s unfulfilled quest as a cricketer
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Partha Chatterjee on why no one, not even Indians, can claim to be part of an ancient nation
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‘The Bicycle Diaries’: The tale of Indian cyclists who circumnavigated the world of a century ago
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Statistics say nearly 4,00,000 farmers committed suicide in India between 1995 and 2018. Why?
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How opium led to ‘the banality of evil, the birth of megacorporations, the foundation of empires’
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Walking on the streets of Kabul, before the Taliban took over Afghanistan
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This is the last book that beloved children’s author Subhadra Sen Gupta wrote
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Why did Hitler and the SS head Himmler send a team of Germans to the Himalayas before World War II?
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A new book explores the seamy side of dating, relationships and marriage from a woman’s perspective
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From a new history of Marico Limited: The story of the Mariwala family separation
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A new anthology brings together poetry of dissent from all over India
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From his memoir: Vir Sanghvi on giving up a lucrative offer from TOI to become editor of ‘Sunday’
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Set in Meghalaya, ‘Funeral Nights’ is an ambitious, unconventional novel about the Khasi people
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Did the Buddhist and Jain philosophies vary significantly in history from Hindu thought?
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‘Observe, analyse, reinterpret’: The aim of a new collection of folk tales and legends from India
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‘The Ocean’s Own’: The third part of the trilogy imagines the life and exploits of King Samudragupta
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This book is a forensic examination of two deaths in the utopian community of Auroville
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‘Mapping Love’: A woman returns home from the US to her father, only to find him missing
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Writing cinema: Shama Zaidi on a major problem with Hindi films and the importance of theatre
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This novel imagines the life of the goddess Sarasvati and her unique marriage to the god Brahma
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How (and why) the new nationalism is all about building a nation-brand for the global economy
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This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it
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How did the Mughals in India reconcile political expediency with religious forces?
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Tribute: Placido Fonseca of Snehasadan ‘gave his life to the children in his world’
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Caste, brutality and a sense of justice inform this collection of Imayam’s stories in translation
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‘Not a film but a philosophy’: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on the making of ‘Aks’
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'The Vedic people would have said, we did not seek power, but rapture’: Roberto Calasso (1941-2021)
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‘A Begum and a Rani’: How Hazrat Mahal of Awadh and Lakshmibai of Jhansi joined the 1857 rebellion
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What the three Khans of Bollywood tell us about India then and now
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Wendy Doniger on how Saranyu the mare raises theological questions about the origin of humans
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‘Harijan’: A radical Odia novel about the lives of latrine-cleaners is now in an English translation
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Meet Miss K, the executive scammer whom no one sued because of the alternate reality she gifted them
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Why Bengali cinema’s colossus Uttam Kumar had a rough time in the Hindi film industry
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‘Murugan Trilogy’: Part one begins with Ganesh waiting for his brother Murugan to be born
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‘A for Prayagraj’: This biography of Allahabad is a modern story of an old city
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‘The Illuminated’: A mother and a daughter confront religious fundamentalism in this debut novel
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‘The Banarasi sari will never die, despite all the lows. It’s about every girl’s dream’
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This debut novel examines power and privilge in Delhi society with an unforgiving eye
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Anand Sheela: From being Rajneesh’s secretary to being in jail, this memoir tells all the stories
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The murder of a prostituted woman is the beginning of this literary novel lurking beneath a thriller
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At 23, Amartya Sen finished the work for his PhD in one year and then set up an economics department
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Tahmima Anam’s new novel: Can a new marriage survive the whirwind success of the wife’s start-up?
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Why ‘Silk Roads’, as a term, is more evocative than it is accurate
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Operation Khukri: When 233 soldiers of the Indian Army were held hostage in Sierra Leone
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‘Legal Fiction’: This taut political novel starts with a husband going missing in small-town India
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What happens if caste enters the debate on sex work? These ‘notes in the margins’ ask the question
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A new examination of Sambhaji’s life asks if he lived up to his father Shivaji’s reputation
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Saving a language: This book brings together 10 rare stories and 46 songs of the Great Andamanese
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‘Asoca’: Irwin Allan Sealy’s new novel is a modern reconstruction of the life of Emperor Ashoka
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How to dispose of the dead? This and many other controversies feature in this history of the Parsis
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Indu Menon’s short stories of blood and gore feature women who will not go down without a fight
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What the connections of sacredness with valour and identity in the Sikh tradition reveal
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This book collects imagined and real stories about mistakes made during growing up
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‘Mahanadi’: Anita Agnihotri’s epic Bengali novel following the course of a river is now in English
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Why was India in a hurry to recognise China after the takeover by Mao Zedong’s Communist Party?
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Anuk Arudpragasam’s long awaited second novel confronts life in the aftermath of devastation
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Dilip Kumar on playing Devdas in Bimal Roy’s classic and finding the ‘appropriate discretion’
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Economist Kaushik Basu’s journals offer a fascinating inside view of a policy advisor’s life
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Whodunnit? A protesting student is murdered during the Prince of Wales’s Bombay visit in 1921
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In this book, meet Yogendra Puranik aka Yogi, Japan’s first politician of Indian origin
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This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors, often ignored by history
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‘Little America’: A man creates an enclave of unrestrained behaviour in orthodox Pakistan
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A new history of the Sikhs charts the lives of the ten Gurus of the faith with curated stories
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Book excerpt: How Dutee Chand began running and the race that made her a sprinter
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This social and family history from Kashmir goes beyond the violence and the politics
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‘Are you a boy or a girl?’ This YA novel explores what coming of age as a gay teenager can be like
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This book asks what history tells us about the unique identity of Maharashtra and the Marathi Manoos
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This novel follows the passionate relationship between a cricket-loving former prince and a singer
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This book imagines the life of Queen Ruupmati of Malwa, in (supposedly) her own words
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Draupadi and Kunti are living in modern-day India. The Pandavas arrive to ‘protect’ them
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How Kabir’s search for solitude is like modern humans’ search for privacy in totalitarian times
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‘Mortuary Tales’: A new book of uncanny stories from Mumbai of horror, real or imagined