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There was no eureka moment in the chapter titled Manipurs Princes and Rebels: Assimilating and Separating Through the Ages . (Image: DC)

Chronicling Partition's impact east of Bangla, N-E othering'

Northeast India: Political History, the book, could not have come at a better time.

3 Sept 2023 9:04 AM IST

The long list of Indias most prestigious literature prize has been announced. (Photo: Twitter)

JCB Prize for Literature: Debut Novelists and Translations Shine in...

Four translations, three debut novels, ten dynamic, original, and trailblazing voices.

2 Sept 2023 11:10 PM IST

Cover photo of Memoirs of a Maverick: The First Fifty Years by Mani Shankar Aiyar. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Aiyar's pink curiosities very nearly cost him his...

Excerpt from Mani Shankar Aiyar's 'Memoirs of a Maverick'

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of The Bird Man of India: Salim Ali for Children by Zai Whitaker. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Salim Ali: An unlikely beginning, a great end

It's the author's well-founded belief that Salim Ali's life offers today's children a role model.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of In the Body of a Woman: Essays on Law, Gender and Society by Aaliya Waziri. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Angsty examination of our body of laws through lens of...

What Waziri lays bare are the inequalities of our gender laws. The insensitivity of our judicial pronouncements.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Book Review | Doughty subaltern teen beats trafficking, shows community new future

Book Review | Doughty subaltern teen beats trafficking, shows...

There is intrigue, excitement, suspense and action.

20 Aug 2023 12:27 AM IST

Cover photo of How Prime Ministers Decide, by Neerja Chowdhury. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Secrets & surprises: Oral testimonies of India's...

What Chowdhury unfolds is an engrossing narrative of event, turns out to be a political thriller.

20 Aug 2023 12:15 AM IST

Cover photo of An Unfinished Search by Rashmi Narzary. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A family's quest amid shifting sands of identity

The author has dedicated the book to the rootless, separated, identity-less people, victims of war and Partition.

20 Aug 2023 12:08 AM IST

Cover photo of Unbroken by Indrani Mukerjea. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Wouldn't it be easier to just kill Rahul Mukerjea? Why...

Excerpt from 'Unbroken' by Indrani Mukerjea.

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | An English garden opens window to healing

Odd though it may seem, this sadness that you don't expect to find in a feel-good book is what makes it work so well.

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain by N.S. Vinodh. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Why India forgot Syud Hossain, its first ambassador to...

For those seeking to understand the context of the Khilafat Movement, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, look no further.

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of Smoke and Ashes: A Writers Journey through Opiums Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | White is might in opium memoir that unmasks Britain,...

In Smoke and Ashes, his new book of nonfiction, Ghosh returns to opium.

6 Aug 2023 12:16 AM IST