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The Forgotten Cities of Delhi review: Poetry among the ruins

Anand Vivek Taneja A historian brings alive the landscape of old Delhi by recounting oral traditions around monuments and their prevalent narratives

The Dhoni Touch review: Skills and the man

K.C. Vijaya Kumar What makes Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Jharkhand’s universal hero and former India captain, remain an iceberg while fires rage around him

An Unlikely Chemistry: Autobiography of a Couple review: More than Mohana’s story

Ramya Kannan A personal memoir references key past events

Love and Marriage in Mumbai review: Keeping it together

In maximum city, six people navigate their relationships

Earth marks: Patterns in the sand left behind by receding tidal waves in Valiazheekal, Kerala.

Magic Realism Love in times of great derangement: ‘Latitudes of Longing’ by Shubhangi Swarup

Latha Anantharaman

The insistent pulse of the earth beats through the human interactions in this exquisite novel

Becalmed now, all passion spent: ‘The Last Email: A Novel’ by Mridula Garg

Harish Trivedi Love, for depicting which Mridula Garg was once booked for obscenity, has run its course here

‘Invitation to a Bonfire’ review: fireworks without fire

M. Saad The limpid prose cannot make up for the narrative weaknesses

‘The Book of M’ review: A grave new world

Revathi Suresh With its violence and gore, this should have been a video game

Working with Muslims: Beyond Burqa and Triple Talaq review: Life on the margins

Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper review: Winds of freedom

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The Dhoni Touch review: Skills and the man

An Unlikely Chemistry: Autobiography of a Couple review: More than Mohana’s story

The Forgotten Cities of Delhi review: Poetry among the ruins

Love and Marriage in Mumbai review: Keeping it together

‘Invitation to a Bonfire’ review: fireworks without fire

‘The Book of M’ review: A grave new world

Becalmed now, all passion spent: ‘The Last Email: A Novel’ by Mridula Garg

Love, for depicting which Mridula Garg was once booked for obscenity, has run its course here

Love in times of great derangement: ‘Latitudes of Longing’ by Shubhangi Swarup

The insistent pulse of the earth beats through the human interactions in this exquisite novel

Mammoth misuse of the wild

Jeyamohan’s post-modern novella Aana Doctor is a critique of man’s callous disregard for the wild that reads like a parable

Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India’s First Newspaper review: Winds of freedom

In 1780, an Irishman took on the British in Calcutta with a tell-all weekly that covered everything from corruption to politics

India Moving: A History of Migration review: Diverse connections

The movement of people to and from India and its impact

Working with Muslims: Beyond Burqa and Triple Talaq review: Life on the margins

A look at the processes of social exclusion which have led to the economic, educational and political decline of Muslims

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations review: The killing machine

How Israel uses targeted deaths as a tactic of war

The discovery of antaryami

Mahatma Gandhi’s My Experiments With Truth has sold over 50 lakh copies and is now available in a new edition, edited by the Gandhian scholar, Tridip Suhrud. Whether it’s the first time reader or for someone who has read it several times, the book engages you profoundly

The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India review: A division of minds

Two doctors trying to make sense of the mental trauma of Partition find even medical care was communalised

The Climate Solution review: Green lessons

What we need to do to save our environment

Ashis Nandy — A Life in Dissent review: The contrarian

Academics and writers trace a scholar’s long career of taking dissenting positions on everything from religion to state

In the Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Indian Democracy review: Same country, different worlds

Understanding why India is messy, complex and many-layered

Mannequin: Working Women in India’s Glamour Industry review: Leave your mark

Listening to voices from the world of fashion

S.D. Burman: The Prince-Musician review: Songs of a boatman

Deciphering the many layers of S.D. Burman’s music

Bengali Culture Over A Thousand Years review: Shared destiny

A comprehensive work, now in translation, traces the inclusive history of the entire Bengali-speaking people, with humanism and humour

The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia review: Tangled up in knots

Why the U.S.’s attempts to unravel threads that choke South Asia have bound it closer to the region

Eye for detail and nuances

E. Santhosh Kumar reflects upon vagaries in society and relationships through his short stories

Illiberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason review: Dangerous echoes

Lessons from the life and death of Gauri Lankesh

The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch review: Through the glass darkly

How social media shaped and destroyed a life

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens & Begums of the Mughal Empire review: Inside the zenana

A parallel history of the Mughal empire and its women, many of whom were accomplished, educated, articulate and cultured

Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? What Should We Do About Them? review: The case against the judiciary

With personal and other examples, Shourie explains why we must strive to make judicial institutions accountable

'Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia' review: Asymmetry and influence

With its surveillance and other capabilities, the U.S. is in a unique position to manipulate outcomes in the region

What makes football beautiful

As Russia 2018 takes centrestage, two authors explain why so many people love this ‘democratic’ and ‘human’ sport

'Sky-clad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Akka Mahadevi' review: In pursuit of a poet

Peeling off layers to rediscover an icon of Kannada literature

'Travails with the Alien' review: A script and a miss

Why Satyajit Ray’s science fiction film was shelved

The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security review: Chinks in the armour

Scholars point to gaping holes in India’s national security architecture and call for political attention to structural reforms

Running Away From Elephants review: Telling it like it is

A humorous, keenly observed take on wildlife and conservation

Hastening Slowly: India’s Industrial Growth in the Era of Economic Reforms review: Barriers to growth

Understanding the economic liberalisation of 1991, the impact it had on industry and why disparities and concerns remain

Easier Said Than Done review: All-round view

How Alan Wilkins forged a path from player to narrator

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky: a review

“My god! What is the country doing to me? Since it is rejecting me, let us consider it coldly, let us watch as it loses its honour and its life.”

'Day and Dastan' review: all the stories left behind

The memories of war, love and loss common to two nations

'Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney' review: on foreign shores, with peeling skin

Roanna Gonsalves’s book of 16 short stories has won Australia’s prestigious Multicultural NSW Award

‘Seventeen’ review: patient reportage rather than a fast-paced page-turner

In the newsroom of North Kanto Times in Hideo Yokoyama’s Seventeen, decisions that affect life far beyond that of the newsroom are made daily, as in

'Murder at the Happy Home for the Aged' review: home of mild horrors:

Some sweet oldies play detective in this fun read

'The Brahmin' review: a gripping read

Ashoka’s James Bond in Sanjay Leela Bhansali land

‘Kaadinullil Rahasyamaayi Ozhukunna Nadhikal’ touches upon our losing connect to Nature

In the film Innocent Voices (El Salvador, 2004), a village torn apart by civil war looks for stability in its church and a priest who is not afraid

Across the Universe: The Beatles in India review: All that loving

The Beatles, Rishikesh, musical and other memories

Childhoods in India: Traditions, Trends, and Transformations review: Deep inequality

Why do the lives of children vary so much? Researchers analyse the complex issue of child rights in our country

India and Pakistan: Neighbours at Odds review: Fresh perspectives

What the archives tell us of Kashmir and other conflicts

Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker review: A lesson from the past

Understanding the expansive, liberal roots of Hinduism, its scientific and philosophical basis, through the life of Adi Shankaracharya

‘The People vs. Democracy’ review: Liberalism on the brink

Economic stagnation, major migrations and the rise of populism are destroying democracy as we know it

‘Happy Dreams’ review: A heartbreaking yet optimistic novel

Trash collectors, daily wage earners and cleaners of urban China live their dreams and take on reality with grit

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