biography
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Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre
Souradeep Roy
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How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story
Akshaj Awasthi
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‘Raya’: This biography of Krishnadevaraya is a love letter to the king from South India
Revanth Ukkalam
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The making of Akbar’s complicated harem, where Rajput women played a critical role
Ira Mukhoty
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Salar Jung I’s biography covers more of the times and less of the life of the diwan of Hyderabad
Revanth Ukkalam
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‘Halla Bol’: Safdar Hashmi’s biography reminds us what it means to be a citizen of a democracy
Sayantan Ghosh
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From the biography: How the Dalai Lama combines a rationalist’s view with a spiritual outlook
Alexander Norman
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VP Menon’s biography: Was the man who charmed the princes really the architect of modern India?
Geeta Doctor
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This biography of VP Menon examines an important but backgrounded figure of India’s freedom movement
Narayani Basu
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This book is an intimate biography of a scientific laboratory in India
Pankaj Sekhsaria
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The enigmatic life and times of VK Krishna Menon are resurrected in this biography by Jairam Ramesh
Geeta Doctor
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How Hariprasad, son of a ‘pehelwan’, came to choose the flute and not the ‘akhada’
Sathya Saran
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India’s espionage agency RAW lifts the veil on its founder Rameshwar Nath Kao with this biography
Nitin A Gokhale
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How my mother almost became Anarkali: poet Sophia Naz writes her mother Shehnaz’s biography
Sophia Naz
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How are writing and mathematics related? This biography of the Weill siblings explores the links
Susan Haris
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Ram Jethmalani (1923-2019): Among many achievements, he helped catalyse the 2002 Kashmir elections
Susan Adelman
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Wooing Sunanda Pushkar, and getting to the truth behind her near-fatal ‘accident’ in Mumbai
Sunanda Mehta
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‘Like chasing a hologram’: How Namita Devidayal wrote an unconventional biography of Vilayat Khan
Neha Bhatt
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Becoming Vilayat Khan: A refreshing biography brings the sitar maestro to life, warts and all
Malini Nair
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This radical biography of Akka Mahadevi takes her out of the traditional Bhakti narrative
Varsha Ramachandran