A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister

Sanjeev Chopra

· Mar 31, 2025 · 08:30 am

From the memoir: A longtime Indian Railways employee remembers her first posting at a remote station

Sangeetha Vallat

· Mar 28, 2025 · 08:30 am

A new biography of RSS’s founder KB Hedgewar recounts Gandhi’s impression of its training camps

Sachin Nandha

· Mar 24, 2025 · 08:30 am

This book examines the legal history of mercy and violence as vital facets of colonial rule in India

Alastair McClure

· Mar 17, 2025 · 08:30 am

A new book examines the violent legacy of the Criminal Tribes Act on Tamil Nadu’s Maravar community

Radha Kumar

· Mar 13, 2025 · 08:30 am

From the memoir: Mountaineer Frank S Smythe (1900-1949) writes about his ascent of the Kanchenjunga

Frank S Smythe

· Mar 12, 2025 · 08:30 am

March global nonfiction: These six recently published books capture the many moods of human history

Scroll Staff

· Mar 09, 2025 · 08:30 am

A new book on All India Radio’s history looks back at the roles of jingles and spots in advertising

Vikrant Pande Neelesh Kulkarni

· Mar 06, 2025 · 08:30 am

Who were the people and ideas that inspired revolutionaries MN Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay?

Kavitha Rao

· Mar 04, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision

Nikhil Govind

· Mar 01, 2025 · 01:30 pm

March nonfiction: Six recently published titles that explore crucial moments of Indian history

Scroll Staff

· Mar 01, 2025 · 08:30 am

In his new book, Pico Iyer travels deep into inner stillness and joy during his stays at a monastery

Pico Iyer

· Feb 28, 2025 · 08:30 am

India has 73 million single women. What is love in their lives like?

Rituparna Chatterjee

· Feb 25, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him

Shakir Mir

· Feb 23, 2025 · 07:30 am

A new book examines the rich and fascinating history of Kutch, spanning nearly three centuries

Mariam Dossal

· Feb 21, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’

Peggy Mohan

· Feb 19, 2025 · 08:30 am

A new book examines Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s hold on Punjab’s culture despite controversies

Santosh K Singh

· Feb 18, 2025 · 08:30 am

In a new book, cricketer Pat Cummins interviews former Australian PM Julia Gillard and others

Pat Cummins

· Feb 14, 2025 · 05:30 pm

The exotic, the respectable, and the vulnerable: How the coloniser’s photographs saw Indian women

Hardik Brata Biswas

· Feb 14, 2025 · 01:30 pm

A new book analyses how refusing to recognise the Opposition formally hinders democracy in India

Gautam Bhatia

· Feb 11, 2025 · 08:30 am