Seeing double: Why some people have out-of-body experiences or hallucinate about their doppelgänger

An excerpt from science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy’s book ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’, in which he writes about the phenomena of autopscopic hallucinations.

Anil Ananthaswamy

· 12 hours ago

Why we can’t talk about sexual violence without asking why men rape

Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian woman to write about being raped, in 1983. In a new book, she raises tough questions about how we view sexual violence.

Sohaila Abdulali

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

How ‘buffalo’ Dipa Karmakar and her ‘donkey’ coach chose the Produnova vault after 2010 CWG loss

In her book ‘Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder’, India’s first female Olympian gymnast talks about her journey from Agartala to the Rio Games.

Dipa Karmakar

· Yesterday · 05:17 pm

Meet the Aadhaar naysayers, whose objection is that the system takes power away from the people

NS Ramnath and Charles Assisi’s ‘The Aadhaar Effect’ address some of the questions that users of the national identification project need answered.

NS Ramnath

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Charles Assisi

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Why have writers become more important than their work in the English-language literary world?

Writers in the Anglophone world are mainly guided by a checklist of literary ambition, Amit Chaudhuri says in a new book.

Amit Chaudhuri

· Nov 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

What readers can expect from a new anthology of Asian speculative fiction

The editor of the collection, Rajat Chaudhuri writes about the whats, whys and hows of the stories he selected.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Nov 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: How Colonel Dyer exploited the planned gathering as a ‘gift of fortune’

In a new book, Kishwar Desai writes about how the residents of Amritsar were manipulated and insufficiently warned before the massacre in 1919.

Kishwar Desai

· Nov 12, 2018 · 08:30 am

How the Green Revolution contributed to India’s air pollution crisis

The agricultural reforms increased crop production but caused the problems that require stubble burning and pollution, writes Siddharth Singh in a new book.

Siddharth Singh

· Nov 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

Joe D’Cruz’s ‘Ocean Rimmed World’ sails with a community of fishermen in ways no novel has

An excerpt from one of the contenders for the 2018 Crossword Jury Award for books in translation.

RN Joe D’Cruz

· Nov 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is there a ‘Hindutva Strategic Doctrine’ that guides Narendra Modi’s foreign policy?

In his new book Varghese K George links India’s US strategy to the prime minister’s ideological belief.

Varghese K George

· Nov 08, 2018 · 08:30 am

Former markets analyst Udayan Mukherjee uncovers the explosive secrets of placid lives in his novel

Once the best-known face on business television news in India, Mukherjee has just published his disturbing first novel, ‘Dark Circles’.

Udayan Mukherjee

· Nov 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why the air inside our homes and offices can be more dangerous than what we’re breathing outside

In addition to polluted air seeping in, many everyday objects emit toxins as well, write environmentalist Kamal Meattle and entrepreneur Barun Aggarwal.

Kamal Meattle

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Barun Aggarwal

· Nov 06, 2018 · 08:30 am