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memoirs

  • Annie Ernaux at 84: How ‘oversharing’ made the Nobel Prize winner the master of the memoir

    Annie Ernaux at 84: How ‘oversharing’ made the Nobel Prize winner the master of the memoir

    Neeraja Srinivasan
    · Aug 31, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Reading list: Memoirs of ten Indian-American writers that contemplate meanings of home and identity

    Reading list: Memoirs of ten Indian-American writers that contemplate meanings of home and identity

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 11, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • ‘Death holds no fear for us’: A Sikh soldier’s insights into the horrors of World War I

    ‘Death holds no fear for us’: A Sikh soldier’s insights into the horrors of World War I

    Raman Singh Chhina
    · Apr 09, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • Where are the memoirs from India’s public servants that tell the truth like it was?

    Where are the memoirs from India’s public servants that tell the truth like it was?

    Mohan Guruswamy
    · Feb 26, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Five biographies through which to revisit the strange life and times of Indira Gandhi

    Five biographies through which to revisit the strange life and times of Indira Gandhi

    Devapriya Roy
    · Nov 20, 2016 · 08:30 am