‘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

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