biography
-
How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story
Akshaj Awasthi
-
‘Raya’: This biography of Krishnadevaraya is a love letter to the king from South India
Revanth Ukkalam
-
The making of Akbar’s complicated harem, where Rajput women played a critical role
Ira Mukhoty
-
Salar Jung I’s biography covers more of the times and less of the life of the diwan of Hyderabad
Revanth Ukkalam
-
‘Halla Bol’: Safdar Hashmi’s biography reminds us what it means to be a citizen of a democracy
Sayantan Ghosh
-
From the biography: How the Dalai Lama combines a rationalist’s view with a spiritual outlook
Alexander Norman
-
VP Menon’s biography: Was the man who charmed the princes really the architect of modern India?
Geeta Doctor
-
This biography of VP Menon examines an important but backgrounded figure of India’s freedom movement
Narayani Basu
-
This book is an intimate biography of a scientific laboratory in India
Pankaj Sekhsaria
-
The enigmatic life and times of VK Krishna Menon are resurrected in this biography by Jairam Ramesh
Geeta Doctor
-
How Hariprasad, son of a ‘pehelwan’, came to choose the flute and not the ‘akhada’
Sathya Saran
-
India’s espionage agency RAW lifts the veil on its founder Rameshwar Nath Kao with this biography
Nitin A Gokhale
-
How my mother almost became Anarkali: poet Sophia Naz writes her mother Shehnaz’s biography
Sophia Naz
-
How are writing and mathematics related? This biography of the Weill siblings explores the links
Susan Haris
-
Ram Jethmalani (1923-2019): Among many achievements, he helped catalyse the 2002 Kashmir elections
Susan Adelman
-
Wooing Sunanda Pushkar, and getting to the truth behind her near-fatal ‘accident’ in Mumbai
Sunanda Mehta
-
‘Like chasing a hologram’: How Namita Devidayal wrote an unconventional biography of Vilayat Khan
Neha Bhatt
-
Becoming Vilayat Khan: A refreshing biography brings the sitar maestro to life, warts and all
Malini Nair
-
This radical biography of Akka Mahadevi takes her out of the traditional Bhakti narrative
Varsha Ramachandran
-
Sunny Deol working on documentary and book on his father Dharmendra
Scroll Staff