Memoir
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Watch: 'Share your story, don't hide it,’ Michelle Obama told students in Arizona
Scroll Staff
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Why (and how) a young school student had to pretend to be upper caste and hide her Dalit identity
Yashica Dutt
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This Indian memoir of coming out of the closet in the face of intolerance is poignant in its detail
Sharif D Rangnekar
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Your Morning Fix: Bajrang Dal man is main accused in killing of policeman who probed Dadri lynching
Scroll Staff
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Kuldip Nayar (1923-2018) revealed unpopular truths about politicians and power brokers in his memoir
Kuldip Nayar
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How Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ made a writer working on her memoir think of death
Manjiri Indurkar
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The age of autofiction is here: How do writers feel about writing novels from their own lives?
Shashank Bhargava
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There’s much more to Reham Khan’s memoir than Imran Khan’s scandals
Devapriya Roy
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What is it like to barely survive a chemical attack on your entire town?
Kaseem Eid
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A haunting new memoir offers an unflinchingly honest account of living with chronic illness
Srinidhi Raghavan
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Saeed Mirza interprets the political history of India and the world through personal stories
Saeed Akhtar Mirza
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Welcome to the femoir: bestselling books that celebrate female success
Anne-Marie Evans, The Conversation
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In a new book, Nalini Jameela breaks taboos and writes about her romantic encounters as a sex worker
Nalini Jameela
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s prison diary offers an intimate slice of India’s freedom struggle
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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This devastating book by a palliative care specialist is necessary reading to understand death
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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This book could have told a brilliant story of how India’s secular narrative was changed. It doesn’t
Saif Mahmood
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On the road with Rajiv Gandhi (who often drove his car himself): A journalist remembers
Suman Chattopadhyay
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‘Just by being this person very loudly, I am breaking down hierarchies’: Gurmehar Kaur
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This deeply personal and unconventional memoir about depression, loss and abuse reinvents the form
Apoorva Sripathi
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‘When you write about a dead person you loved, you must tell their version too’
Urvashi Bahuguna