biography
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Former Prince Andrew’s biographer predicts ‘lots more to come’, after years charting his vices
Dennis Altman, The Conversation
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‘Saw monsters... blinded by flashes of beauty’: Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s first impression of India
Indranil Chakravarty
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Business biography: The early days of Ravindra Kishore Sinha’s Security and Intelligence Services
Prince Mathews Thomas
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‘He played Beethoven till his last breath’: CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury’s close aide remembers him
Veeraiah Konduri
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‘Misreading Vajpayee as a Nehruvian liberal exaggerates the novelty of the 2014 mandate’
Amritesh Mukherjee
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Personal biography: Rajwati Seth, born in Lucknow in 1896, is delighted by Calcuttan cosmopolitanism
Madhu Bhaduri
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‘A love for dualities’: Art critic Uma Nair writes about Syed Haider Raza’s later paintings
Uma Nair
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From the biography: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s scientific experiments in space
Narayan R
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From the first biography of an Assamese: Nineteenth-century scholar Ananda Ram Dhekial Phookan
Gunabhiram Barua Banani Chakravarty
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All us know of Anne Frank, but who was she, really?
Jan Lanicek, The Conversation
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Book excerpt: Asha Bhosle, a star on the stage and off it
Ramya Sarma
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From the biography: How MS Swaminathan persuaded farmers to try new seed varieties
Priyambada Jayakumar
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From the historical biography: Babur sends an envoy to Delhi for the first time in 1505
Aabhas Maldahiyar
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Pulitzer Prize for biography: ‘Every Living Thing’ charts the tension between two types of ‘genius’
John Long, The Conversation
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Bonnets, speech bubbles, ‘cheeky easter eggs’: A sophisticated graphic biography of Jane Austen
Kerrie Davies, The Conversation
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Banking, airlines, railways, coal, jute, newspapers: Ramkrishna Dalmia’s business-building spree
Sonu Bhasin
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From the biography: How Atal Bihari Vajpayee tried to balance Pakistan, USA, Europe and China
Abhishek Choudhary
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‘Failures for having dreamed of a united India’: Diplomat KM Panikkar anticipated Partition in 1941
Narayani Basu
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From the biography: How freedom fighter MC Davar tried to prevent the partition of India
Praveen Davar
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Why Dilip Kumar was known as cinema’s ‘Tragedy King’
Ashok Chopra