Nonfiction
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‘Courting India’ by Nandini Das wins British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
Scroll Staff
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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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November nonfiction: Six recently published books about culture, politics, and nuance in India
Sayari Debnath
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Capitalism will be replaced by a system that will deepen exploitation, says a new book
Yanis Varoufakis
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Environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt recalls the 1970 catastrophic floods in the Alaknanda river
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
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From the biography: Anticolonial anarchist MPT Acharya’s exile in Paris as ‘Mr Bhayankaram’
Ole Birk Laursen
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How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?
Yousuf Saeed
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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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Why the ‘civil’ world failed so often to establish contact with the Sentinelese in the Andamans
Adam Goodheart
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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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‘Unsealed Covers’ interprets law like a lawyer, theorises like an academic, rebels like a citizen
Prerna Vij
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An educator suggests being dull and obvious and making mistakes can make you a better communicator
Matt Abrahams
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A new book suggests ways for India to harness the talents of its tier-2 and tier-3 cities
Shashank Mani
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A new book suggests sustainable alternatives to the consumption of smartly advertised brands
Nagaraja Prakasam
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How RK Narayan, a young graduate rejected by editors, took a leap of faith to become a writer
Indradeep Bhattacharyya
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What happened to Dolly, a member of the Dom community in Banaras, when she became a widow
Radhika Iyengar
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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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Reading list: Winners of the 2023 Valley of Words Book Awards in English and Hindi languages
Scroll Staff
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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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How molecular ecologist Uma Ramakrishnan decodes wildlife mysteries through genetics (and faeces)
Prerna Singh Bindra