biography
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‘Ebrahim Alkazi’: The meteoric rise of an artist who shaped contemporary theatre aesthetics in India
Swati Rai
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Biography: The life of Kargil hero Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, who received a posthumous Maha Vir Chakra
Neha Dwivedi Diksha Dwivedi
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How former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur democratised education by making English non-compulsory
Santosh Singh Aditya Anmol
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How Rukmini Devi Arundale modernised the Kalakshetra sari and made ‘Ahimsa silk’ fashionable
VR Devika
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‘Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’: This biography presents a women’s rights champion ahead of her times
Saleem Rashid Shah
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For children: What was physicist Satyendranath Bose’s childhood in Calcutta like?
Swati Sengupta
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A new biography profiles Nandini Satpathy, the former Odisha chief minister and fiction writer
Pallavi Rebbapragada
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This biography of the former WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan presents her journey
Anuradha Mascarenhas
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From the biography: Ram Vilas Paswan’s role in implementing the Mandal Commission report
Sobhana K Nair
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Biography: When theatre director Ebrahim Alkazi turned the terrace of his home into an auditorium
Amal Allana
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How Manoj Bajpayee tried and tried to get into the National School of Drama
Piyush Pandey Rohit Vats
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How Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay used art to establish solidarity between newly independent countries
Nico Slate
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From the biography: How Pratapsingh Rane, Goa’s longest-serving CM, modernised the state
Vijaydevi Rane
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How the US press viewed Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first woman president of UN General Assembly
Manu Bhagavan
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The child bride who challenged patriarchy and became one of India’s pioneering women doctors
Sudhir Chandra
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‘Ananta, Ananta...’: Medieval thinker Chakradhar Svami’s biography from the Murty Classical Library
Mhaimbhat Anne Feldhaus
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From the biography: When Jagadish Chandra Bose’s father put his young son under an ex-pirate’s care
Sudipto Das
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A new biography of David Hare examines how the educationist reformed schools in colonial India
Sarojesh Mukherjee
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From the biography: Sheikh Abdullah opposed the Dogra monarchy’s systems, till he grew autocratic
Chitralekha Zutshi
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Happy new year: Six recently published non-fiction books with which to usher in 2024
Sayari Debnath