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The pandemic has brought the best out of the theorising Indian

The novel, originally written in Italian, reads like a narrator’s despatches to the self, pithy meditations that probe both being and belonging

Klara is an artificial friend, an android created for a specific human purpose. But what if she can feel and think like a human?

Some believe that the heated debate on a recent campaign against sexual harassment in academics is a generational one, while some hold that the divide highlights caste positions

Guha’s independence has allowed him to attack targets in all areas; he will assail with equal vehemence both the enthusiasts of Hindutva and the communists of West Bengal

Jeet Thayil’s latest work opens new doors for feminist revisionist Christian narratives in India

An ode to writer and great-uncle Ved Mehta, and Ekarat, the friend who wrote and quit on his own terms

In her novel based on the life of Rani Jindan Kaur, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni crafts a hero for the modern-day reader

Actor Adil Hussain on theatre, communal amity and citizenship in a new book about Assam and its many identities

Understanding a raga and its philosophical and emotional universe is a daunting task. Amit Chaudhuri makes an attempt to do so in his latest book

Lindsay Pereira’s debut novel ‘Gods And Ends’ is a stark and fearless portrayal of the Roman Catholic community in the Bombay of yore

Bharati Jagannathan’s short stories pull us into the minutiae of life of young women in the late 20th century

The emergence of a substantive number of educated and professional Muslims has contributed to the small measure of assertiveness visible among the members of the community today

Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s memoir gives a reader an interesting peek into the life of a strong woman who took up new challenges and made them work, but less so into her filmography

Through captivating anecdotes and in-depth research, Yashaswini Chandra brings alive an enduring bond — of humans and horses

On his first day in Tihar, Ghandy found Afzal Guru standing at the gate of the cell to greet him

Amitav Ghosh adapts a legendary tale into a prescient warning in verse for the modern world

Reading in the loo — flipping through anything, really — appears to help the locomotion

A book on Badri Narayan is a tribute — albeit a belated one — to an artist who did not enjoy the recognition he truly deserved

Abdul Ghaffar Khan exchanges notes on non-violence with MK Gandhi, and finds the message of love in all religions

Raza Mir’s ‘Murder at the Mushaira’ works well as a historical novel that captures the sunset years of the Mughal empire, but falters as a whodunnit

Saira finally acquires a mobile phone, but creating a cool virtual identity is way tougher than she imagined

A new book maps Uddhav Thackeray’s rise in family and politics, and his efforts to curate a different brand of Hindutva

A new play recreates the extraordinary life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt