Memoir
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How a journalist’s journey to being a secular Muslim in India began at home and in school
Seema Mustafa
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In Abraham Verghese’s deeply moving tale about friendship, tennis is both a comfort and a metaphor
Oindrila Mukherjee
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Oliver Sacks wrote about cool neuroscience. Bill Hayes writes about loving him (and New York)
Jai Arjun Singh
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With a new Salman Rushdie novel coming, it’s time to re-read his memoir ‘Joseph Anton’
Atreyee Majumder
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Ruskin Bond is 83 today. He reveals where he found the novels he wrote
Ruskin Bond
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This memoir reveals the pain of writing in a time of suicidal depression
Anu Kumar
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Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’: When a memoir is full of lies (which is why you want to read it)
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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Why some of our most engaging writers are from the Indian Foreign Service
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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Fed up with 'Fifty Shades'? Read 'Story of O' instead. (It came first.)
Victoria Anderson, The Conversation
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Even if Jonathan Franzen dislikes Jennifer Weiner’s work, he might approve of her memoir
Devapriya Roy
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Bryan Cranston’s memoir maps the long and hard road to ‘Breaking Bad’
Ankita Chawla
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Seven delicious graphic memoirs to end the year with (and wipe out the bad memories of 2016)
Devapriya Roy
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What a first-time writer learnt about how to make a bestseller in India
Anu Vaidyanathan
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Years after his death, Habib Tanvir’s letters tell the story of a love he did not acknowledge
Jill MacDonald
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Time to lift the ban on what Nehru’s aide wrote about him and his contemporaries?
Satyavrat KK
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The strange case of Taslima Nasrin and authors who spearheaded the ban of her autobiography
Taslima Nasrin
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Good news: John le Carré’s 'memoir' is a set of short stories. Bad news: they could be his last
Anvar Alikhan
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Scroll Staff
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‘My life cannot be made over to anyone, not even Namdeo Dhasal’
Malika Amar Shaikh