Stayin’ alive: How Yasser Latif Hamdani fought Covid-19 and brain tumour to write Jinnah’s biography

Aisha Fayyazi Sarwari

· Aug 15, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This biography of Manohar Parrikar is more hagiographic than critical, and silent where it matters

Pamela D’Mello

· Aug 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre

Souradeep Roy

· Jul 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story

Akshaj Awasthi

· Jun 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Raya’: This biography of Krishnadevaraya is a love letter to the king from South India

Revanth Ukkalam

· May 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

The making of Akbar’s complicated harem, where Rajput women played a critical role

Ira Mukhoty

· Apr 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

Salar Jung I’s biography covers more of the times and less of the life of the diwan of Hyderabad

Revanth Ukkalam

· Apr 12, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘Halla Bol’: Safdar Hashmi’s biography reminds us what it means to be a citizen of a democracy

Sayantan Ghosh

· Mar 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

From the biography: How the Dalai Lama combines a rationalist’s view with a spiritual outlook

Alexander Norman

· Mar 06, 2020 · 08:30 am

VP Menon’s biography: Was the man who charmed the princes really the architect of modern India?

Geeta Doctor

· Feb 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

This biography of VP Menon examines an important but backgrounded figure of India’s freedom movement

Narayani Basu

· Jan 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

This book is an intimate biography of a scientific laboratory in India

Pankaj Sekhsaria

· Jan 08, 2020 · 07:30 am

The enigmatic life and times of VK Krishna Menon are resurrected in this biography by Jairam Ramesh

Geeta Doctor

· Dec 28, 2019 · 07:30 am

How Hariprasad, son of a ‘pehelwan’, came to choose the flute and not the ‘akhada’

Sathya Saran

· Dec 27, 2019 · 07:30 am

India’s espionage agency RAW lifts the veil on its founder Rameshwar Nath Kao with this biography

Nitin A Gokhale

· Nov 25, 2019 · 07:30 am

How my mother almost became Anarkali: poet Sophia Naz writes her mother Shehnaz’s biography

Sophia Naz

· Nov 22, 2019 · 07:30 am

How are writing and mathematics related? This biography of the Weill siblings explores the links

Susan Haris

· Sep 15, 2019 · 11:30 am

Ram Jethmalani (1923-2019): Among many achievements, he helped catalyse the 2002 Kashmir elections

Susan Adelman

· Sep 08, 2019 · 12:21 pm

Wooing Sunanda Pushkar, and getting to the truth behind her near-fatal ‘accident’ in Mumbai

Sunanda Mehta

· Jul 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Like chasing a hologram’: How Namita Devidayal wrote an unconventional biography of Vilayat Khan

Neha Bhatt

· Jan 06, 2019 · 08:30 am