Memoir
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‘Isn’t Dr C wonderful?’: In her memoir, an Indian doctor recalls working in the NHS in 1960s England
Lindy Rajan Cartner
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Memoir: An Indian woman faces the Taliban’s horrors after moving to Afghanistan with her husband
Sushmita Bandyopadhyay Arunava Sinha
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Family memoir: A stack of letters, a ruby ring. Who was the mysterious American woman behind both?
Ajit Singh Dutta
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‘The Woman in Me’: Britney Spears’s memoir warns against the potential dangers of child superstardom
Jane O’Connor, The Conversation
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From the memoir: How a setback in Vienna led to success in Uttar Pradesh for an Indian civil servant
Naresh Nandan Prasad
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From the memoir: What it meant to leave Peshawar and move to newly-partitioned India as a child
Indira Varma
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From the memoir: A ‘rental person’ on providing services to lonely and socially anxious people
Shoji Morimoto Angus Turvill
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From the memoir: When Gurcharan Das’s mother told him to stop reading Albert Camus’s ‘rubbish’
Gurcharan Das
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‘Knife’: Salman Rushdie’s memoir about 2022 attempt on his life will be published in April next year
Scroll Staff
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‘Heart Tantrums’: A memoir about a troubled marriage lays out the compromises of womanhood
Shubhangi Tiwari
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From the memoir: Ecologist Madhav Gadgil recalls his time at Harvard University as an MSc student
Madhav Gadgil
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October nonfiction picks: Six recent books that look at aspects of Indian history through new lenses
Sayari Debnath
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When Dev Anand was mistaken for a taxi driver
Dev Anand
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From the memoir: ‘I don’t remember my mother crying or feeling lost after my father’s death’
K Saradamoni
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Gang wars, unemployment, political violence: A journalist reports from the dark side of the Maldives
Daniel Bosley
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‘Finding My Self’: Activist Chand Kishore Saint’s memoir is an experiment with truth in practice
Jael Silliman
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From the memoir: A woman recalls how her husband’s illness rocked their marriage
Aisha Sarwari
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One of India’s first bureaucrats writes about working with both British and Indian governments
YN Varma
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From the memoir: A woman recalls how her childhood changed irrevocably after her brother’s suicide
Liana Mistry
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From the memoir: Mani Shankar Aiyar on his first election victory and a ‘half-life’ in politics
Mani Shankar Aiyar