Biography: When theatre director Ebrahim Alkazi turned the terrace of his home into an auditorium

Amal Allana

· Mar 26, 2024 · 01:30 pm

How Manoj Bajpayee tried and tried to get into the National School of Drama

Piyush Pandey Rohit Vats

· Mar 25, 2024 · 08:05 am

How Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay used art to establish solidarity between newly independent countries

Nico Slate

· Mar 20, 2024 · 08:30 am

From the biography: How Pratapsingh Rane, Goa’s longest-serving CM, modernised the state

Vijaydevi Rane

· Mar 05, 2024 · 08:30 am

How the US press viewed Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first woman president of UN General Assembly

Manu Bhagavan

· Feb 23, 2024 · 08:30 am

The child bride who challenged patriarchy and became one of India’s pioneering women doctors

Sudhir Chandra

· Feb 15, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Ananta, Ananta...’: Medieval thinker Chakradhar Svami’s biography from the Murty Classical Library

Mhaimbhat Anne Feldhaus

· Jan 12, 2024 · 01:30 pm

From the biography: When Jagadish Chandra Bose’s father put his young son under an ex-pirate’s care

Sudipto Das

· Jan 12, 2024 · 09:33 am

A new biography of David Hare examines how the educationist reformed schools in colonial India

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· Jan 05, 2024 · 08:30 am

From the biography: Sheikh Abdullah opposed the Dogra monarchy’s systems, till he grew autocratic

Chitralekha Zutshi

· Jan 04, 2024 · 08:30 am

Happy new year: Six recently published non-fiction books with which to usher in 2024

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 31, 2023 · 08:30 am

Seeing out 2023: Six new nonfiction books that illustrate the hard (and hopeful) realities of India

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 02, 2023 · 07:30 am

From the biography: Meet constitutional lawyer MK Nambyar as an academically gifted schoolboy

KK Venugopal Suhrith Parthasarathy Suhasini Sen

· Nov 10, 2023 · 08:30 am

Grandiose visions, arrested development: A biography considers the contradictions of being Elon Musk

Matthew Ricketson, The Conversation

· Nov 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

An innovative new biography of Emperor Ashoka reads his life from his edicts alone

Nandan S Kaushik

· Nov 04, 2023 · 08:30 am

Gathering human skulls, reading ‘Anandamanth’: Revolutionary Rash Behari Bose’s childhood

Joseph McQuade

· Oct 27, 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 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

From the biography: Why Indira Gandhi saw young Farooq Abdullah as the future leader of Kashmir

Ashwini Bhatnagar and RC Ganjoo

· Sep 27, 2023 · 08:30 am

The fascinating story of Sridhar Das, famed for his innovative illumination at community festivals

Samragngi Roy

· Aug 25, 2023 · 12:30 pm