‘Tawaifnama’: How a zamindar’s mistress saved him and herself from an English officer in Calcutta

Saba Dewan’s ‘Tawaifnama’ tracks a family of courtesans over several generations.

Saba Dewan

· 2 hours ago

Classical notes and hard rock jam together in this Kolkata romance built around music

An excerpt from Nandita Bose’s novel ‘Everglow’.

Nandita Bose

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

July 19, 1969: Fifty years ago, India nationalised 14 private banks. This is how it was done

Jairam Ramesh’s biography of PN Haksar, who masterminded the nationalisation of banks announced by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Jairam Ramesh

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

‘We are in big trouble’: A new book investigates the generic drug boom – and alleges rampant fraud

An excerpt from Katherine Eban’s ‘Bottle of Lies’.

Katherine Eban

· Jul 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago

An excerpt from ‘Freedom Fables’, feminist writings of the early twentieth century Bengali intellectual and activist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

· Jul 18, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Ginny Kalra, I loved you. Did I kill you?’ An air-hostess is found dead. Her neighbour is suspected

An excerpt from ‘She Stoops To Kill’, a collection of crime stories featuring women suspected of murder.

Pratyaksha

· Jul 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Meet Flying Officer Gunjan Saxena, India’s only woman warrior in the Kargil war

An excerpt from ‘Kargil: Untold Stories from the War’ by Rachna Bisht Rawat.

Rachna Bisht Rawat

· Jul 17, 2019 · 07:30 am

Treat China like a frenemy: Raghav Bahl to New Delhi in his new book of prescriptions for India

‘Embrace when possible, ignore when prudent and fight back only when absolutely necessary.’

Raghav Bahl

· Jul 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

After #ChennaiRains: How everyone who was not displaced (and social media) helped flood victims

Krupa Ge’s ‘Rivers Remember’ examines the making and the horror stories of the devastating Chennai floods of 2015.

Krupa Ge

· Jul 16, 2019 · 07:30 am

Did Chandra Shekhar foresee Yashwant Sinha’s falling out with the BJP? Sinha’s memoir has the answer

‘In a nutshell, what he told me was that I had enjoyed a degree of credibility in politics, which had been destroyed by my move of joining the BJP.’

Yashwant Sinha

· Jul 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Once, they carried out violent missions for ULFA. What do these former militants do now?

In ‘Bulletproof’, journalist Teresa Rehman chronicles her experiences of reporting from conflict zones in North-East India.

Teresa Rehman

· Jul 15, 2019 · 07:30 am

This poignant story from the 1965 India-Pakistan war is a reminder of the bitter fruits of Partition

An excerpt from Salman Khurshid’s ‘Visible Muslim, Invisible Citizen: Understanding Islam in Indian Democracy’.

Salman Khurshid

· Jul 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm