‘Courting India’ by Nandini Das wins British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

Scroll Staff

· Nov 01, 2023 · 02:54 pm

From the memoir: How a setback in Vienna led to success in Uttar Pradesh for an Indian civil servant

Naresh Nandan Prasad

· Nov 01, 2023 · 08:30 am

November nonfiction: Six recently published books about culture, politics, and nuance in India

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 28, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Capitalism will be replaced by a system that will deepen exploitation, says a new book

Yanis Varoufakis

· Oct 27, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt recalls the 1970 catastrophic floods in the Alaknanda river

Chandi Prasad Bhatt

· Oct 26, 2023 · 08:30 am

From the biography: Anticolonial anarchist MPT Acharya’s exile in Paris as ‘Mr Bhayankaram’

Ole Birk Laursen

· Oct 25, 2023 · 08:30 am

How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?

Yousuf Saeed

· Oct 24, 2023 · 08:30 am

From the memoir: What it meant to leave Peshawar and move to newly-partitioned India as a child

Indira Varma

· Oct 23, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Why the ‘civil’ world failed so often to establish contact with the Sentinelese in the Andamans

Adam Goodheart

· Oct 23, 2023 · 08:30 am

From the memoir: When Gurcharan Das’s mother told him to stop reading Albert Camus’s ‘rubbish’

Gurcharan Das

· Oct 16, 2023 · 12:30 pm

‘Unsealed Covers’ interprets law like a lawyer, theorises like an academic, rebels like a citizen

Prerna Vij

· Oct 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

An educator suggests being dull and obvious and making mistakes can make you a better communicator

Matt Abrahams

· Oct 12, 2023 · 12:30 pm

A new book suggests ways for India to harness the talents of its tier-2 and tier-3 cities

Shashank Mani

· Oct 11, 2023 · 12:30 pm

A new book suggests sustainable alternatives to the consumption of smartly advertised brands

Nagaraja Prakasam

· Oct 10, 2023 · 12:30 pm

How RK Narayan, a young graduate rejected by editors, took a leap of faith to become a writer

Indradeep Bhattacharyya

· Oct 06, 2023 · 08:30 am

What happened to Dolly, a member of the Dom community in Banaras, when she became a widow

Radhika Iyengar

· Oct 04, 2023 · 08:30 am

From the memoir: Ecologist Madhav Gadgil recalls his time at Harvard University as an MSc student

Madhav Gadgil

· Oct 03, 2023 · 08:30 am

Reading list: Winners of the 2023 Valley of Words Book Awards in English and Hindi languages

Scroll Staff

· Oct 02, 2023 · 05:30 pm

October nonfiction picks: Six recent books that look at aspects of Indian history through new lenses

Sayari Debnath

· Sep 30, 2023 · 12:30 pm

How molecular ecologist Uma Ramakrishnan decodes wildlife mysteries through genetics (and faeces)

Prerna Singh Bindra

· Sep 28, 2023 · 08:30 am