BOOK EXCERPT
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Fiction: An incident at the swimming pool leaves young Mira and Ashu shaken, and their mother angry
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee’s recipe for ‘chicken cooked like a vegetable’ from his food book
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How the Nattukottai Chettiars of TN built businesses across South India, Burma in the unstable 1930s
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Translated short fiction: The scrawny cat that Mahadi so despises was once the pet he loved
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Can you be single and polyamorous in India? A new book looks for answers in life experiences
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Crime fiction: Inspector Kumar knows it is not an accident when a young woman falls to her death
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A new book shows how a Bangalore NGO adopted hands-on methods to teach science to school students
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International Booker Prize shortlist: From Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
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Is your coffee ‘fair’ to its cultivators and the environment?
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In a new book, a diplomat’s wife recounts a funny anecdote from a party while posted in Switzerland
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Short fiction: Witnessing his brother’s beheading transforms a boy into a deadly headhunter
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This book shows how vast the creator and influencer economy is, and why brands need to tap into it
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A new book examines the role of the Indian man at home, and his dependence on his family and wife
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A doctor’s biography: Opthalmologist Virender Singh Sangwan’s early years in studying the cornea
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Keshava Guha’s new novel: Tara and Lila challenge patriarchal Delhi with their ambitions
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A new book studies ancient texts and ideas to identify six systems of Indian philosophy
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Short story: The garment store Devapichai works at is like a prison. Will he be able to escape it?
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Shengole, Misal: This book on food from the Marathi kitchen features two one-pot recipes
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‘All regional languages should get equal parity’: The Hindi-Tamil tussle in TN has a long history
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Classic Odia stories: No task is sordid enough for a cremator as long as he gets the right price
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In a new book, violinist L Subramaniam looks at how Carnatic music developed over the centuries
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Fiction: Kayo is a member of an exclusive club in Tokyo, but it won’t be easy to continue
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Kele ki machchli, moong dal ke shami kebab, atte ka keema: The faux ‘meat’ dishes of Kayasth cuisine
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Corporate controversies: What made Johnson & Johnson the subject of investigations in India?
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‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
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For children: The tale of how young Hanuman learnt to make fire and also control it
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A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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Fiction: An old woman from Punjab recollects a world that everyone else seems to have forgotten
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What volunteering at food distribution drives taught a citizen about the lives of children in slums
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From the memoir: A longtime Indian Railways employee remembers her first posting at a remote station
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Classic Malayalam stories in translation: A couple resorts to a philosophical remedy to make money
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Business memoir: Manish Vij chronicles his entrepreneurial journey through his startup LetsBuy
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A journalist visits Cuba to understand Kerala’s bond with the country over communism and Castro
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‘Whenever I write a word / it lacks the meaning I intended’: An anthology of translated world poetry
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A new book suggests five ways to land your dream job without quitting your current role
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What Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel ‘Aranyak’ says about his understanding of forests
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Fiction: Layla’s life in a small liberal arts college is about to change when she discovers a body
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Culinary experimentation: In chef Sadaf Hussain’s kadhi, an addition of cashew nuts, apples, guavas
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Translated short fiction: Malka Begum is not impressed by what she sees on a trip to Delhi
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Folk tale from Bhutan: How Acho La La, the full moon, saved a young girl from being eaten by a demon
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A new biography of RSS’s founder KB Hedgewar recounts Gandhi’s impression of its training camps
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Fiction: What does Naina do when her father calls her to wipe the blood off her mother’s dead body?
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For children: A magical mirror teaches young Riya an important lesson on self-love
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta introduces Apoorvanand’s new book on the poetry of heartbreak in a democracy
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‘You don’t have to look far to understand exile’: These poems are a call to our common humanity
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Bhakri, lachcha, poli, puri: The staple breads of Indian cuisine and what they pair best with
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‘He was warm and welcoming’: The first time that the 19-year-old Dalai Lama met Chairman Mao Zedong
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Classic short stories from Karnataka: A baby stirs feelings of humanity in a tribe of cannibals
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Indian history for children: The small kingdom of Bharatpur and its fabulous kings
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Before the return from space: The long road that Sunita Williams took to become an astronaut
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Crime fiction: What was thought to be a suicide is actually a murder. Can Meenakshi find the killer?
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A book from Japan offers practical ways to free your mind from stress
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In this book, a look at Jaswant Singh’s short tenure as finance minister and the budget he presented
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‘The Beloved is my eternal sun’: A new translation of Rumi’s poetry and parables by Farrukh Dhondy
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For children: Sriya and Anandi write letters to each other and ‘post’ them in a crevice of a wall
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This book examines the legal history of mercy and violence as vital facets of colonial rule in India
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Translated short fiction: A peculiar fever grips Amma during the cotton harvesting season
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For children: How infertile lands in the Chambal basin helped biodiversity flourish
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‘It opened up a whole new vocabulary’: Painter Sayed Haider Raza on his iconic ‘Bindu’ series
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Translated fiction: Who wants to kill Arulmozhi Varman, the beloved Ponniyin Selvan of the Lankans?
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A new book examines the violent legacy of the Criminal Tribes Act on Tamil Nadu’s Maravar community
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Fiction: Madhu is brutally murdered in his home on a regular evening, shattering the peace of a city
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For children: Dinu takes part in the Dandi march but, unbeknownst to him, a killer is on the loose
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From the memoir: Mountaineer Frank S Smythe (1900-1949) writes about his ascent of the Kanchenjunga
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Family history: A doctor’s posting in the Khasi Hills and the humble khichdi that sustained him
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Fateh Sahi: The 18th-century Huseypur ruler who fought a guerrilla war against East India Company
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For children: How will Rajat get one hundred rupees for the boatman to take him across the river?
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A new book argues feminism must be integral to public toilet design to ensure safety for everyone
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A new book brings the story of the roti, India’s versatile but unassuming staple food
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The incredible story of how 500 Indian prisoners of war escaped the Nazis during World War Two
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Fiction: A carpet-maker in Srinagar pursues a transcendental dream – to weave a flying carpet
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Philosophy: The teachings of Taoism are offered to a contemporary readership in this new book
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A new book on All India Radio’s history looks back at the roles of jingles and spots in advertising
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Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
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A life coach offers tips on how to create social wealth by forming meaningful relationships
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A new book examines urban India’s changing attitudes to marriage and the reasons for this
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‘The earth / gashed open / flaming red and raw’: Poems about life in Sri Lanka between war and peace
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Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment
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Who were the people and ideas that inspired revolutionaries MN Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay?
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Fiction: A couple joins a working-class revolution with disaffected Sikh factory workers in London
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A new book recommends ways to create the best possible environment for emotional healing
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How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
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Murder mystery: Lakshmi Krishnamurthi is missing, and so is a Rs-5-crore painting from her home
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Investment manager Devina Mehra offers strategies for selling (and holding) stocks in her book
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In his new book, Pico Iyer travels deep into inner stillness and joy during his stays at a monastery
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Fiction: Dev and his friends’s dreams unfold against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising India
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A management coach suggests that creating your own ‘reality’ can help you succeed
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How Indian soldiers were subjected to medical neglect while fighting for the Empire in World War I
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Classic horror stories from Bengal: Neela and her father see a ghost in the dead of the night
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Food history: Rice is ever-present in eateries and restaurants today. This was not always the case
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Who was Wilayat Mahal? An heir to the kingdom of Awadh, a delusional outcast, or a cunning impostor?
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Translated Hindi autobiography: An excerpt from ‘Apne Hi Dhun Mein’, by Ruskin Bond
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The lives of a 5th-century philosopher and a modern-day college professor collide in this novel
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A new book recounts how 21-year-old Satyam Gandhi cleared the UPSC examinations on the first try
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India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?
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Short story: A lonely crow at night could be a dear departed friend
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For children: Climate change, global warming and practical solutions that can actually help
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‘End of a glorious chapter’: A journalist’s first-person account of Bhagat Singh’s execution
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Fiction: Two Indian institutions are keen to produce silicon, but someone wants to spoil their plans
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A new book examines the rich and fascinating history of Kutch, spanning nearly three centuries