How did Surat become the setting for an 18th-century French story?

Nov 03, 2024 · 11:30 am

Who was Vishwanath Singh Bahadur? This is how a queer Maharajah and his court seduced an Englishman

Nov 25, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Nawab Ghani, the Judas of Dhaka, and writer Shahidul Zahir’s unsparing portrait of him

Oct 15, 2023 · 12:30 pm

India at 75: What is the place of women’s writings in the historical imagination of the nation?

Aug 16, 2022 · 08:30 am

Why are we still fascinated by tales of the ‘shikaar’ despite the ecological horrors of hunting?

Apr 22, 2018 · 06:30 pm

From clothing to recreation: An 1847 book gave British women advice on what to carry to India

Jan 08, 2018 · 09:30 pm

How the shadow of the battle of Karbala has shaped Urdu literature

Oct 23, 2017 · 10:30 pm

After ‘Dunkirk’, a starter list of 10 engaging books (and a bonus) on India’s role in the World Wars

Aug 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

What the Mountbattens’ younger daughter knew about their life in India and their open marriage

Apr 08, 2017 · 07:30 am

Glimpses of a book on the Americas, published by the Ottoman Empire, that costs as much as a house

Mar 25, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today

Dec 31, 2016 · 05:30 am

How Sri Lankan writers are (still) dealing with the 1983 riots in their fiction

Jul 23, 2016 · 10:00 am