memoir
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Saeed Mirza interprets the political history of India and the world through personal stories
Saeed Akhtar Mirza
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Welcome to the femoir: bestselling books that celebrate female success
Anne-Marie Evans, The Conversation
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In a new book, Nalini Jameela breaks taboos and writes about her romantic encounters as a sex worker
Nalini Jameela
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s prison diary offers an intimate slice of India’s freedom struggle
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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This devastating book by a palliative care specialist is necessary reading to understand death
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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This book could have told a brilliant story of how India’s secular narrative was changed. It doesn’t
Saif Mahmood
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On the road with Rajiv Gandhi (who often drove his car himself): A journalist remembers
Suman Chattopadhyay
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‘Just by being this person very loudly, I am breaking down hierarchies’: Gurmehar Kaur
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This deeply personal and unconventional memoir about depression, loss and abuse reinvents the form
Apoorva Sripathi
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‘When you write about a dead person you loved, you must tell their version too’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘How could she fight for the country’s freedom but not her own?’ A mini graphic memoir
Kruttika Susarla
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How do you write about your own ‘madness and melancholia’ when you aren’t sure if it is behind you?
Divya Guha
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‘I wrote for non-Indian readers, but many Indian readers did not know these things about caste’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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This memoir may be the most difficult one you’ll read. It will break your heart
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Lucky
Scroll Staff
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‘I want to rock the boat and I know that the boat desperately wants to be rocked’
Urvashi Bahuguna
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Shobhaa De is turning 70 in her usual manner. By writing an irreverent book about it
Shobhaa Dé
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A Pakistani travel writer’s visit to his family’s hometown in India became a memoir of Partition
Salman Rashid
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How do you mourn a father you can barely forgive? A searing memoir on living with mental illness
Gayathri Prabhu
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Valson Thampu’s memoir of running St Stephen’s College is as stormy as his days as principal there
Nipun Malhotra