biography
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Akshay Mukul’s biography of Agyeya is a nuanced journey through the writer’s fascinating life
Priyanka Dubey
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What is ‘Fridamania’? A new book examines the imitations and reinvention of Frida Kahlo and her art
Gaby Franger
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Nirmal Verma: Vineet Gil’s biography reconstructs the writer from the elements of his life
Vineet Gill
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A new book offers an inside view of what makes Gautam Adani different from other Indian businessmen
RN Bhaskar
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Does Shashi Tharoor’s new biography of BR Ambedkar throw new light on Babasaheb’s politics?
Shashi Tharoor
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‘Growing Up Karanth’ is a personal sketch of Shivarama Karanth’s life as remembered by his children
Nikhil Govind
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How the firebrand revolutionary Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Sastri became the writer Agyeya
Akshay Mukul
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How Shivaji’s latest biographer researched the life story of the Maratha emperor
Vaibhav Purandare
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Jagadish Chandra Bose: The first complete biography investigates his life as well as his science
Kunal Ghosh
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Charu Majumdar: A new biography imagines the CPIM(L) leader’s interrogation by the police
Ashok Mukhopadhyay
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‘I never thought of leaving the santoor and picking up the sitar’: Shivkumar Sharma (1938-2022)
Ina Puri
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This book tells the stories that the reclusive musical genius Annapurna Devi told her disciples
Atul Merchant Jatayu
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From the biography: How singer Usha Uthup chose love in Calcutta over her dying marriage
Vikas Kumar Jha
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The original rocket man: A new book examines the life and times of scientist Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Biman Nath
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When Vajpayee defied hardliners to visit Pakistan as prime minister with a call for friendship
Sagarika Ghose
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‘Our tenure won’t be long. We’ll go with one suitcase’: HD Deve Gowda on becoming Prime Minister
Sugata Srinivasaraju
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Dinyar Patel wins the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for his biography of Dadabhai Naoroji
Dinyar Patel
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How Harihar Jariwala went from Sanjay Kumar to Sanjeev Kumar and struggle to stardom
Hanif Zaveri Sumant Batra
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How Rajshree Chandra came to write her freedom-fighter grandfather Jagat Narain Lal’s biography
Rajshree Chandra
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Biography controversy: How do you write the life story of someone who has long been dead?
Narayani Basu