March nonfiction: Six new books examine the promises made and broken in quest of a modern India

Sayari Debnath

· Mar 02, 2024 · 08:30 am

How Lala Lajpat Rai reinterpreted India’s ‘Muslim’ history to highlight peaceful co-existence

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav

· Feb 27, 2024 · 08:30 am

February nonfiction: Six newly published books from around the world that speak to our times

Scroll Staff

· Feb 17, 2024 · 01:30 pm

A new book examines how India is using climate policy to align with its global strategic needs

Mohan Kumar

· Feb 06, 2024 · 01:30 pm

February nonfiction: Six newly published books for the shortest month of the leap year

Sayari Debnath

· Feb 03, 2024 · 08:30 am

From gem-craft to statecraft: How Gujarati jewellers became powerbrokers in Mughal India

Sudev Sheth

· Feb 02, 2024 · 08:30 am

For children: Who was Durgabai Kamat, the first female film actor of India?

Anwesha Sengupta Supurna Banerjee Simantini Mukhopadhyay

· Feb 01, 2024 · 01:30 pm

A new book examines the role the US and UK played in China’s quest to dominate the Taiwan Strait

Vijay Gokhale

· Jan 24, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Global nonfiction: Six recently published books from around the world to read in the new year

Scroll Staff

· Jan 20, 2024 · 01:30 pm

From the biography: When Jagadish Chandra Bose’s father put his young son under an ex-pirate’s care

Sudipto Das

· Jan 12, 2024 · 09:33 am

From the autobiography: The founder of Kalyan Jewellers reflects on the pros of going ‘hyper-local’

TS Kalyanaraman

· Jan 05, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Happy new year: Six recently published non-fiction books with which to usher in 2024

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 31, 2023 · 08:30 am

Interviews: 2022 NIF Translation Fellows Rahul Srawate, NS Gundur, V Ramaswamy and Amlan Biswas

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 30, 2023 · 01:30 pm

A new book examines how we can strive for ‘swaraj’ to ensure a more equitable and sustainable world

Sumanas Koulagi

· Dec 21, 2023 · 08:30 am

Memoir: One of India’s richest jewellers recalls the business principles he learnt from his father

Joy Alukkas Thomas Scaria Nidhi Jain

· Dec 15, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Why does the Bible have no reference to any female godly presence, or to divine spouses or lovers?

Mineke Schipper

· Dec 07, 2023 · 01:30 pm

A new book suggests the first tools may have been invented by female Homo habilis to feed herself

Cat Bohannon

· Dec 06, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Tales of Chanan Singh Dhillon, an Indian soldier in World War Two who cheated death on land and sea

Probal Dasgupta

· Dec 05, 2023 · 09:46 am

‘Being Adivasi’: Questions about Adivasi life are answered in this book, but not always convincingly

Avadhoot Dongare

· Dec 03, 2023 · 07:30 am

Seeing out 2023: Six new nonfiction books that illustrate the hard (and hopeful) realities of India

Sayari Debnath

· Dec 02, 2023 · 07:30 am