Working-class women sign up as ‘hosts’ for surrogate babies in this dystopian debut novel

An excerpt from Joanne Ramos’s ‘The Farm’, in which an agent tries to sign up a white woman as a ‘premium’ surrogate mother.

Joanne Ramos

· 8 hours ago

India simply does not have the resources to deal with the aftermath of childhood obesity

In ‘Fight With Fat’, bariatric surgeon Kamal Mahawar discusses India’s battle with the pandemic with over three crore of its population being obese.

Kamal Kumar Mahawar

· May 18, 2019 · 02:30 pm

Kababs, kulfis, qormas: Forgotten recipes from Shah Jahan’s kitchens get a second life in this book

‘The Mughal Feast’ by Salma Yusuf Husain recreates the Persian recipe book ‘Nuskha-e-Shahjahani’, providing a glimpse into a bygone era of pomp and show.

Salma Yusuf Husain

· May 18, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘We were attacked thrice’: A survivor’s story of the Left Front government’s siege of Marichjhapi

The first-person account of Safal Halder, one of the survivors of the 1979 Marichjhapi massacre whose oral histories are recorded in ‘Blood Island’.

Deep Halder

· May 17, 2019 · 08:30 am

Narendra Modi had asked for 10 years to transform India. This book asks if he should get them

An updated version of journalist John Elliott’s ‘Implosion’ examines the impact of the Modi years and what they mean for the future.

John Elliott

· May 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Fafnir’s heart: A legend from Norse mythology inspires an anthology of poetry from across the world

These poems across languages and cultures, translated into English, take on increasing significance in a world that is intolerant of diversity.

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

· May 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

May 15, 1936: Ambedkar published ‘Annihilation of Caste’. What was his conflict with Gandhi?

An excerpt from Arundhati Roy’s introduction to a recent edition of ‘The Annihilation of Caste’, now published as ‘The Doctor and the Saint’.

Arundhati Roy

· May 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This is how the new novel by ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ author EL James begins. (Fans will be pleased.)

EL James is back with her trademark variety of the sex thriller.

EL James

· May 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray offers Gurmehar Kaur his vision of Mumbai’s nightlife

Gurmehar Kaur taps the minds of India’s young politicians through interviews in her new book ‘The Young and the Restless’.

Gurmehar Kaur

· May 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm

When a crusader against acid attacks met victims for the first time in a Bengaluru hospital

In ‘Make Love Not Scars’, Ria Sharma recounts her entry into the corrosive world of acid attacks and how she got involved with rehabilitation of victims.

Ria Sharma

· May 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

What the first bishop of the Latin Church in India found: Hindus welcoming Christian missionaries

An excerpt from Siddhartha Sarma’s ‘Carpenters and Kings’, which explores the origins and growth of Christianity in India.

Siddhartha Sarma

· May 13, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Internet personalisation services are not showing us the real world but only what we want to see

In ‘Where Will Man Take Us?’ Atul Jalan examines the real and unreal worlds that technology is creating for humans.

Atul Jalan

· May 13, 2019 · 08:30 am