biography
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‘Chapal Rani’: An ingenious biography of queer actor Chapal Bhaduri, commercial theatre, and jatra
Anchita Ghatak
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What Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s life says about moral conduct and service to humanity
Raziuddin Aquil
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‘Jatra icon Chapal Bhaduri negotiated his sexuality without ever bothering about identity politics’
Rohit Chakraborty
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Military biography: General Krishnaswamy Sundarji had a knack for dramatic decisions on battlefields
Probal Dasgupta
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‘The Secret Master’: A fine critique of a music ecosystem that rewards showmanship over substance
Nikhil Inamdar
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‘Made in India’: A fine exposition of the personal and professional in creating pharma brand Lupin
Chinmay Tumbe
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This biography of Wajid Ali Shah depicts him as a dancer and a master of the performing arts
Kaukub Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza Talat Fatima
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How Gajsingh II made Jodhpur a tourism hotspot
Yogi Vaid Aman Nath
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From the biography: How Karan Singh tried to modernise tourism and civil aviation in the 1960s
Harbans Singh
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How American activist James Lawson took non-violence from India to the US to fight against racism
Rajmohan Gandhi
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Business biography: A daughter’s fight to save pharma brand Lupin while it went through a tough time
Manish Sabharwal Sundeep Khanna
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How a Bengali woman became a physician to King Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah and the Nepal royal family
Deepta Roy Chakraverti
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From the biography: The secret of the life, art and milieu of khayal singer Arun Kashalkar
Sumana Ramanan
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Biography: Chapal Rani, a female impersonator of Bengali jatra, who blurred boundaries of identity
Sandip Roy
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‘Being Modern’: Ananda Ram Dhekial Phookan’s (1829–1859) biography resurrects Assam’s forgotten hero
Diya Sengupta
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‘Bhupen Khakhar’: The genius of the iconic Sunday painter is reimagined in this Gujarati biography
Digvijay Nikam
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Family history: A housewife’s quest for intellectual growth in a newly independent India
Kalpana Karunakaran
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‘The Tree Within’: Mexican poet Octavio Paz returns to India via Indranil Chakravarty’s biography
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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From the biography: How Annie Besant campaigned for trade unions and universal suffrage in England
Clare Paterson
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Aparajith Ramnath wins 2025 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for M Visvesvaraya’s biography
Scroll Staff