Punta Arenas: Did you know of the Chilean town where a Sindhi man set up a business outpost in 1905?

An excerpt from Nandita Haksar’s book on travels around Antarctica.

Nandita Haksar

· 6 hours ago

Political killings in Kerala: The violence between the Left and the Right began over 70 years ago

An excerpt from journalist Ullekh NP’s book about the bloodshed and murders between political forces in Kannur.

Ullekh NP

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

British Indian writer Preti Taneja’s retelling of ‘King Lear’ wins Desmond Elliott Prize

The chairperson of the judges team said she loved ‘the sheer ambition’ of ‘We That Are Young’.

Scroll Staff

· Yesterday · 11:01 am

When Jayalalithaa tried to bribe journalists with Aristocrat suitcases (and other corrupt tales)

In a new book, journalist P Raman looks back on extraordinary episodes from his decades-long career.

P Raman

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

A mighty kingdom wages war on nomadic forest dwellers in this novel set in 120 CE

It falls upon one woman to broker peace between the city of Virinara and the Gontu people in Usha Alexander’s novel about love, war and myth.

Usha Alexander

· Jun 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Teflon-coated leader’: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first BJP PM to be branded above the party

An excerpt from ‘Shades of Saffron’ by journalist Saba Naqvi who has reported on the BJP for two decades.

Saba Naqvi

· Jun 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

The forgotten history of the African slaves who were brought to the Deccan and rose to great power

The legendary Malik Ambar was not the only ‘habshi’ to rise to astonishing prominence, writes Manu Pillai, the author of a new book on Deccan history.

Manu S Pillai

· Jun 19, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The curious history of prohibition (and alcohol consumption) in Pakistan

An excerpt from journalist Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s new collection of essays on Pakistani culture and history.

Nadeem F Paracha

· Jun 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

Eight bedtime stories to read to children of all ages (but they’re all from the West)

Still, these books may spark off a lifelong love for reading.

Raluca Radulescu, The Conversation

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Lisa Blower, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Indira Gandhi’s conscience keeper? ‘I could not become a ‘keeper’ of something which did not exist’

Extracts from a new biography of the former prime minister’s close aide, PN Haksar, who has been called her ‘moral and ideological compass from 1967 to 1972’.

Jairam Ramesh

· Jun 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

From English to Kannada to Kannada to English: Tejaswini Niranjana’s mirrored path to translation

An interview with a polyglot cultural theorist on the practice of translation.

Trisha Gupta

· Jun 17, 2018 · 05:45 pm

‘I didn’t want the tragedy to arrive as a kind of what-will-happen-next page-turner’: Anuradha Roy

Anuradha Roy on never reading Tagore until she began researching her ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’, and why she turns to Chekov for writing inspiration.

Sana Goyal

· Jun 17, 2018 · 12:30 pm