These micro stories by Ravish Kumar are a tribute to both love and the nooks of a modern Indian city

In ‘Ishq Main Shahar Hona’, the journalist writes about how love and city spaces shape each other. Excerpts from a new English translation by Akhil Katyal.

Ravish Kumar

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Arranged marriages are a compromise between kama optimists and kama pessimists, writes Gurcharan Das

Das’s new book explores kama through personal experiences and philosophical readings.

Gurcharan Das

· Sep 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘I have been wearing whiteface for so long’: Sharmila Sen’s book confronts race in America today

An excerpt from ‘Not Quite Not White’, by a writer who migrated from Kolkata to the USA at the age of twelve.

Sharmila Sen

· Sep 19, 2018 · 07:30 am

‘Kama’s Last Sutra’: An archaeologist is sent back in time to 11th century Khajuraho in this novel

In Trisha Das’s historical novel, an archaeologist travels in time to the reign of the Chandela king Vidyadhara, who built the Kandariya Mahadeva temple.

Trisha Das

· Sep 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Stunk in my nostrils’: How Gandhi and Patel clashed bitterly with Bose over Congress presidentship

In a new book, 'The Man Who Saved India', Hindol Sengupta chronicles the life of Vallabhbhai Patel.

Hindol Sengupta

· Sep 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Give us any Muslim name’: How authorities tried to build a false spy case against Nambi Narayanan

In his memoir, the scientist who was falsely accused of selling secrets from ISRO programmes recalls the brutal and malicious interrogations he faced.

Nambi Narayanan

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Arun Ram

· Sep 15, 2018 · 06:30 am

Yuval Noah Harari explains why fake news triumphs: Because people prefer power over truth

In his new book, ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’, Harari has gone from his studies of the past and the future to examine the problems of the present.

Yuval Noah Harari

· Sep 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘The intolerant Hindu is Modi’s mascot,’ writes Kapil Sibal in a new book

An excerpt from ‘Shades of Truth’ by the senior lawyer and Congress leader.

Kapil Sibal

· Sep 13, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Myth, fact and fiction blend in this novel based on the murder of Tamil activist Rajani Thiranagama

Malayalam author TD Ramakrishnan’s novel about a filmmaker documenting the life of the human rights activist and the LTTE has been translated into English.

TD Ramakrishnan

· Sep 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Beloved Delhi’: This book explores how Dilli became the city of poets, and of Urdu

From Mir to Ghalib, from Zafar to Zauq, Saif Mahmood tells the stories of the city’s best-loved Urdu poets.

Saif Mahmood

· Sep 12, 2018 · 08:00 am

‘Eating Wasps’: The soul of a writer lingers after her suicide in Anita Nair’s new novel

An excerpt from Nair’s latest novel about a mysterious suicide and the all-consuming power of desire.

Anita Nair

· Sep 11, 2018 · 08:30 am

How the unending cycle of violence between (real) Maoists and the state was fomented by both sides

An excerpt from Bernard D’Mello’s ‘India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History’.

Bernard D’Mello

· Sep 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm