From the biography: JC Bose’s brief encounter with medicine and the fever that forced him to quit

Meher Wan

· Mar 27, 2023 · 08:30 am

How Ashrafunnisa Begum, who set up the first girl’s school in Lahore, educated herself in secret

Muhammadi Begum

· Feb 27, 2023 · 08:30 am

Maulana Azad: A new biography visits the life of the man who became India’s first education minister

S Irfan Habib

· Feb 03, 2023 · 08:30 am

For young readers: A new biography of star athlete Milkha Singh aka The Flying Sikh

Swati Sengupta

· Jan 31, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Five lesser-known facts about Harry and Meghan from a new audiobook by a biographer of the royals

Lady Colin Campbell

· Dec 22, 2022 · 05:30 pm

This biography of Nirmal Verma’s literature focuses on his writing rather than his personal life

Kinshuk Gupta

· Nov 20, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Akshay Mukul’s biography of Agyeya is a nuanced journey through the writer’s fascinating life

Priyanka Dubey

· Nov 19, 2022 · 08:30 am

What is ‘Fridamania’? A new book examines the imitations and reinvention of Frida Kahlo and her art

Gaby Franger

· Nov 03, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Nirmal Verma: Vineet Gil’s biography reconstructs the writer from the elements of his life

Vineet Gill

· Oct 26, 2022 · 08:30 am

A new book offers an inside view of what makes Gautam Adani different from other Indian businessmen

RN Bhaskar

· Oct 24, 2022 · 08:30 am

Does Shashi Tharoor’s new biography of BR Ambedkar throw new light on Babasaheb’s politics?

Shashi Tharoor

· Oct 12, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Growing Up Karanth’ is a personal sketch of Shivarama Karanth’s life as remembered by his children

Nikhil Govind

· Sep 17, 2022 · 08:30 am

How the firebrand revolutionary Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Sastri became the writer Agyeya

Akshay Mukul

· Sep 06, 2022 · 08:30 am

How Shivaji’s latest biographer researched the life story of the Maratha emperor

Vaibhav Purandare

· Aug 28, 2022 · 08:30 am

Jagadish Chandra Bose: The first complete biography investigates his life as well as his science

Kunal Ghosh

· Jul 04, 2022 · 08:30 am

Charu Majumdar: A new biography imagines the CPIM(L) leader’s interrogation by the police

Ashok Mukhopadhyay

· Jun 06, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘I never thought of leaving the santoor and picking up the sitar’: Shivkumar Sharma (1938-2022)

Ina Puri

· May 11, 2022 · 08:30 am

This book tells the stories that the reclusive musical genius Annapurna Devi told her disciples

Atul Merchant Jatayu

· Mar 04, 2022 · 08:30 am

From the biography: How singer Usha Uthup chose love in Calcutta over her dying marriage

Vikas Kumar Jha

· Mar 02, 2022 · 08:30 am

The original rocket man: A new book examines the life and times of scientist Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Biman Nath

· Feb 25, 2022 · 08:30 am