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Interview | Amitav Ghosh on his new book ‘Smoke and Ashes’

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From China to Manipur, opium to tea and climate change, Amitav Ghosh explains why he has focused on the East in his writing

Sexism in science: review of ‘Lab Hopping’ by Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj

Vasudevan Mukunth

Revisiting the idea of India: review of Dennis Dalton’s ‘Indian Ideas of Freedom’

Review of Vappala Balachandran’s Intelligence Over Centuries: the art and science of intelligence gathering

T.S. Subramanian

Calling out injustice: review of Aakash Singh Rathore’s ‘Becoming Babasaheb’

Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta

Review of Sara Rai’s Raw Umber — A Memoir: Remembrance of a lost world

Excursions to the real world

The Booker Prize may have boosted the profile of Indian translations but it is hard to make a living doing it, says author and translator Jerry Pinto

Auhtor Arundhati Roy described India as a land of ‘sophisticated jurisprudence’, but the one where laws are applied differently depending on your ‘caste, class, gender and ethnicity’.

India of today ‘like plane flying backwards, headed for a crash’, says Arundhati Roy

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