How former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria arrested Sanjay Dutt and got him to confess

An excerpt from ‘Let Me Say It Now’, former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria’s memoir.

Rakesh Maria

· Feb 20, 2020 · 07:30 am

What (or who) is the Ganga? Bidisha Banerjee travelled the length of the river to write this book

An excerpt from ‘Superhuman River: Stories of the Ganga’.

Bidisha Banerjee

· Feb 19, 2020 · 08:30 am

How independent Pakistan’s search for a music of its own made the qawwali popular on the radio

An excerpt from ‘Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan’, by Nadeem Farooq Paracha.

Nadeem Farooq Paracha

· Feb 18, 2020 · 07:30 am

What is love between millennials like? This novel might be India’s ‘Normal People’

An excerpt from Arjun Nath’s novel ‘Not All Those Who Wander’

Arjun Nath

· Feb 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Once Upon A City’: The magical spot that was (and is) Hill Road in Mumbai’s Bandra

Bandra’s arterial street is as deeply steeped in general lore as it is in personal memory for one who has grown up on it.

Meher Marfatia

· Feb 17, 2020 · 07:30 am

This book captures memories of the world’s biggest music acts playing in India

An excerpt from ‘Calling Elvis – Conversations With Some of Music’s Greatest: A Personal History’, by Shantanu Datta.

Shantanu Datta

· Feb 14, 2020 · 08:30 am

How did the Indian Muslim identity express itself through poetry before Independence?

An excerpt from ‘Poetry Of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings Of India 1850-1950’, by Ali Khan Mahmudabad.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad

· Feb 13, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How Wendell Rodricks started his fashion boutique in Goa, well before designers had their own shops

An excerpt from ‘The Green Room’ by fashion designer Wendell Rodricks, who died on Wednesday, February 12, at 59.

Wendell Rodricks

· Feb 13, 2020 · 08:30 am

Indian doctors in the US confront race, tradition and personal conflicts in this Kannada novel

An excerpt from the Kannada novel ‘Hijab: A Novel’, by Guruprasad Kaginele, translated into the English by Pavan N Rao.

Guruprasad Kaginele

· Feb 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Dara Shukoh: Supriya Gandhi’s biography reveals a complex and nuanced figure of the Mughal prince

Shah Jahan’s eldest son was expected to succeed him to the throne, but it was his younger brother Aurangzeb who won the war of succession.

Supriya Gandhi

· Feb 12, 2020 · 07:30 am

In this novel, a British tourist is raped in Kerala, teens are suspected, communal fires are lit

An excerpt from ‘The Cliffhangers: A Novel’, by Sabin Iqbal.

Sabin Iqbal

· Feb 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Hope against hope’: What Tavleen Singh, former Narendra Modi supporter, now feels about him

An excerpt from ‘Messiah Modi? A Tale Of Great Expectations’ by Tavleen Singh.

Tavleen Singh

· Feb 11, 2020 · 08:30 am