nonfiction
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February nonfiction: Six newly published books for the shortest month of the leap year
Sayari Debnath
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From gem-craft to statecraft: How Gujarati jewellers became powerbrokers in Mughal India
Sudev Sheth
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For children: Who was Durgabai Kamat, the first female film actor of India?
Anwesha Sengupta Supurna Banerjee Simantini Mukhopadhyay
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A new book examines the role the US and UK played in China’s quest to dominate the Taiwan Strait
Vijay Gokhale
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Global nonfiction: Six recently published books from around the world to read in the new year
Scroll Staff
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From the biography: When Jagadish Chandra Bose’s father put his young son under an ex-pirate’s care
Sudipto Das
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From the autobiography: The founder of Kalyan Jewellers reflects on the pros of going ‘hyper-local’
TS Kalyanaraman
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Happy new year: Six recently published non-fiction books with which to usher in 2024
Sayari Debnath
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Interviews: 2022 NIF Translation Fellows Rahul Srawate, NS Gundur, V Ramaswamy and Amlan Biswas
Sayari Debnath
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A new book examines how we can strive for ‘swaraj’ to ensure a more equitable and sustainable world
Sumanas Koulagi
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Memoir: One of India’s richest jewellers recalls the business principles he learnt from his father
Joy Alukkas Thomas Scaria Nidhi Jain
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Why does the Bible have no reference to any female godly presence, or to divine spouses or lovers?
Mineke Schipper
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A new book suggests the first tools may have been invented by female Homo habilis to feed herself
Cat Bohannon
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Tales of Chanan Singh Dhillon, an Indian soldier in World War Two who cheated death on land and sea
Probal Dasgupta
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‘Being Adivasi’: Questions about Adivasi life are answered in this book, but not always convincingly
Avadhoot Dongare
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Seeing out 2023: Six new nonfiction books that illustrate the hard (and hopeful) realities of India
Sayari Debnath
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From academic Pranab Bardhan’s memoir: Why the Naxalite movement of the 1970s was bound to fail
Pranab Bardhan
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‘Isn’t Dr C wonderful?’: In her memoir, an Indian doctor recalls working in the NHS in 1960s England
Lindy Rajan Cartner
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New India Foundation announces shortlist for 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize for nonfiction
Scroll Staff
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A CEO and founder addresses some basic questions of business (and some of life) in a new book
Vaibhav Maloo