books
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This book is an insider’s view of the games the UN’s Security Council plays
Saikat Datta
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Ramayana reimagined: The novel that sees Surpanakha a happy woman
Volga
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When voyeurism and gender fluidity make fiction stronger than truth about modern relationships
Tharun James Jimani
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Why do the tigers of Sundarbans eat humans when tigers around the world seldom do?
SY Montgomery
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This Tamil novel laid bare the politics and divisiveness of Malayalam literature
Sundara Ramaswamy
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Suketu Mehta has written a new story, and it's a frenetic mixture of memory and desire
Arunava Sinha
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This Partition novel has never been out of print since 1963. It tells why we are where we are
Abdullah Hussein
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This is what life is like when a writer marries a writer
Devapriya Roy
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Many parents won’t read their children scary stories. Perhaps they shouldn’t be blamed
Kiera Vaclavik, The Conversation
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Before Raghuram Rajan, there were other Raghuram Rajans. Or, RBI governors who had to leave
TCA Srinivasa Raghavan
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What the Goldman Sachs people want you to read this autumn
Scroll Staff
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Perhaps no book has come as close to wrapping grief in words as this one
Sameen Borker
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How books on cinema are actually published in India (it’s hilarious)
Kanishka Gupta
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Why reading Manohar Shetty’s poetry is like knowing the earth all over again
Nabina Das
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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Scroll Staff
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Commercial surrogacy is only one of the faces of the babies-for-cash industry
Pinki Virani
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Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Scroll Staff
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‘Only the erotic remains mysterious, unconquered. Everything else has become data.’
G Sampath
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Will India ever have free e-books like on the New York Subway?
Scroll Staff
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The story of Amrita Pritam’s final love poem
Nirupama Dutt