When Vajpayee defied hardliners to visit Pakistan as prime minister with a call for friendship

Sagarika Ghose

· Jan 06, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Our tenure won’t be long. We’ll go with one suitcase’: HD Deve Gowda on becoming Prime Minister

Sugata Srinivasaraju

· Dec 07, 2021 · 08:30 am

Dinyar Patel wins the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for his biography of Dadabhai Naoroji

Dinyar Patel

· Dec 01, 2021 · 12:00 pm

How Harihar Jariwala went from Sanjay Kumar to Sanjeev Kumar and struggle to stardom

Hanif Zaveri Sumant Batra

· Oct 26, 2021 · 10:30 am

How Rajshree Chandra came to write her freedom-fighter grandfather Jagat Narain Lal’s biography

Rajshree Chandra

· Oct 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

Biography controversy: How do you write the life story of someone who has long been dead?

Narayani Basu

· Oct 24, 2021 · 08:30 am

How Zohra Segal, 48-year-old mother of two, reinvented herself in London

Ritu Menon

· Aug 25, 2021 · 10:30 am

‘A for Prayagraj’: This biography of Allahabad is a modern story of an old city

Udbhav Agarwal

· Jul 23, 2021 · 10:03 am

The new biography of Agha Shahid Ali is a love letter to the poet but not a critical view of a life

Niyati Bhat

· Jun 26, 2021 · 12:30 pm

How Kabir’s search for solitude is like modern humans’ search for privacy in totalitarian times

Purushottam Agrawal

· Jun 25, 2021 · 08:30 am

This biography of Agha Shahid Ali reads his life and his poetry together to join the dots

Manan Kapoor

· Jun 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

Ruttie: This biography reveals what we did not know about the woman who married Jinnah

Saad S Khan with Sara S Khan

· Jan 20, 2021 · 08:30 am

Ghalib in Banaras, Banaras in Ghalib: A new critical biography rereads the legendary poet’s life

Mehr Afshan Farooqi

· Jan 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Black Spartacus’: A biography of the man who may have been the first great anti-colonialist leader

Dinyar Patel

· Jan 10, 2021 · 08:30 am

A voice beyond compare: The rich legacy of the legendary MS Subbulakshmi

Keshav Desiraju

· Jan 07, 2021 · 08:30 am

JBS Haldane’s life, via Samanth Subramanian’s biography, shows why scientists must be political too

Dinyar Patel

· Oct 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Gandhi before Mahatma: What made the lawyer Mohandas Karamchand move to South Africa?

Raja Rao

· Oct 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

Ravi Shankar’s biographer Oliver Craske (rightly) foregrounds his music over his personal life

Keshav Desiraju

· Sep 27, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Osho aide Anand Sheela talks about her authorised biography, ‘Nothing to Lose’

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· Sep 17, 2020 · 02:34 pm

Parveen Babi was ‘flesh-and-blood with contradictions, ambitions and aspirations’, says biographer

Nandini Ramnath

· Aug 29, 2020 · 12:00 pm