How Kabir’s search for solitude is like modern humans’ search for privacy in totalitarian times

Purushottam Agrawal

· Jun 25, 2021 · 08:30 am

This biography of Agha Shahid Ali reads his life and his poetry together to join the dots

Manan Kapoor

· Jun 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

Ruttie: This biography reveals what we did not know about the woman who married Jinnah

Saad S Khan with Sara S Khan

· Jan 20, 2021 · 08:30 am

Ghalib in Banaras, Banaras in Ghalib: A new critical biography rereads the legendary poet’s life

Mehr Afshan Farooqi

· Jan 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Black Spartacus’: A biography of the man who may have been the first great anti-colonialist leader

Dinyar Patel

· Jan 10, 2021 · 08:30 am

A voice beyond compare: The rich legacy of the legendary MS Subbulakshmi

Keshav Desiraju

· Jan 07, 2021 · 08:30 am

JBS Haldane’s life, via Samanth Subramanian’s biography, shows why scientists must be political too

Dinyar Patel

· Oct 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Gandhi before Mahatma: What made the lawyer Mohandas Karamchand move to South Africa?

Raja Rao

· Oct 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

Ravi Shankar’s biographer Oliver Craske (rightly) foregrounds his music over his personal life

Keshav Desiraju

· Sep 27, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Osho aide Anand Sheela talks about her authorised biography, ‘Nothing to Lose’

Scroll Staff

· Sep 17, 2020 · 02:34 pm

Parveen Babi was ‘flesh-and-blood with contradictions, ambitions and aspirations’, says biographer

Nandini Ramnath

· Aug 29, 2020 · 12:00 pm

Stayin’ alive: How Yasser Latif Hamdani fought Covid-19 and brain tumour to write Jinnah’s biography

Aisha Fayyazi Sarwari

· Aug 15, 2020 · 12:30 pm

This biography of Manohar Parrikar is more hagiographic than critical, and silent where it matters

Pamela D’Mello

· Aug 08, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre

Souradeep Roy

· Jul 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story

Akshaj Awasthi

· Jun 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Raya’: This biography of Krishnadevaraya is a love letter to the king from South India

Revanth Ukkalam

· May 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

The making of Akbar’s complicated harem, where Rajput women played a critical role

Ira Mukhoty

· Apr 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

Salar Jung I’s biography covers more of the times and less of the life of the diwan of Hyderabad

Revanth Ukkalam

· Apr 12, 2020 · 12:30 pm

‘Halla Bol’: Safdar Hashmi’s biography reminds us what it means to be a citizen of a democracy

Sayantan Ghosh

· Mar 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

From the biography: How the Dalai Lama combines a rationalist’s view with a spiritual outlook

Alexander Norman

· Mar 06, 2020 · 08:30 am