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Why the Jewish communities in India left a Zionist writer deeply disappointed
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From Ken Follett: How will a small group of people in Kingsbridge fight tyranny and modernisation?
Ken Follett
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What is the Hunza diet? Is it realistic? Why is the Western world so obsessed with it?
Ashok Malhotra
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When a business family in Bombay came to the aid of persecuted Jews from Jerusalem and Jaffa
Ajay Kamalakaran
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October nonfiction picks: Six recent books that look at aspects of Indian history through new lenses
Sayari Debnath
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How a mysterious diamond trader inspired the first American novel on India
Anu Kumar
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Why a celebrated Russian artist chose to become an Indian citizen
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How camels from Punjab ended up joining a police force in southern Africa
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Northeast India’: This book shows the region may have one name but looks back at many histories
Shibani Phukan
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In the poetry of Amir Khusrau, food is served with style and flourish
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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In fiction: The great cloudburst and landslide of September 18, 1880 in Nainital
Namita Gokhale
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Bombay is better than Calcutta: Impressions of a US novelist in early 20th-century India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘The Indians’: Historians tell the many histories of India with humanness and scholarly objectivity
Urmi Chanda
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Who was William Borden, the American who helped take libraries to every corner of Baroda?
Anu Kumar
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The story of how Hindus stopped distrusting biscuits and began eating them
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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By obsessing about the past instead of the future, India is weakening its Constitutional ideals
Bhopinder Singh
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‘India’s Secret War’: A sensitive account of India’s BSF joining Bangladesh’s fight for liberation
Ankush Banerjee
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War: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 proved that nuclear confrontation can be devastating
Gwynne Dyer
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After suppressing an Egyptian revolution, the British wanted to exile its leader to India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How Sumatra became a popular destination for Sikh immigrants in the 19th century
Ajay Kamalakaran