How have love, intimacy and violence changed in the age of social media? These short stories show us

An excerpt from the story ‘No Filter’, from Nisha Susan’s ‘The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories’.

Nisha Susan

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

Asaram Bapu: This book is a police officer’s first-hand account of his arrest and conviction

A survivor’s testimony from ‘Gunning for the Godman: The True Story Behind Asaram Bapu’s Conviction’, by Ajay Lamba with Sanjeev Mathur.

Ajay Lamba with Sanjeev Mathur

· Aug 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Memoir: Trade union activist Ilina Sen on life, co-workers and camaraderie in Chhattisgarh

Ilina Sen died in Kolkata on August 9 at the age of 69.

Ilina Sen

· Aug 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Kintsugi’: The Japanese art of repair with gold is applied to life and love in this novel

An excerpt from Anukrti Upadhyay’s third novel.

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Aug 07, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Ayodhya: How the RSS’s Balasaheb Deoras sparked the events leading to the Ram temple

Excerpted with permission from ‘The RSS and the Making of the Deep Nation’, Dinesh Narayanan.

Dinesh Narayanan

· Aug 05, 2020 · 08:30 am

When Shakuntala Devi interviewed a closeted man about to be married: ‘I’ve a duty towards my family’

The human calculator’s ‘The World of Homosexuals’, published in 1977, is considered to be a pioneering book on queerness.

Shakuntala Devi

· Aug 03, 2020 · 12:00 pm

What do dating, romance and love really mean for a Dalit woman in India today?

An excerpt from ‘Swipe Me Left, I’m Dalit’, by Christina Dhanaraj, from ‘Love is Not a Word: The Culture and Politics of Desire’, edited by Debotri Dhar.

Christina Dhanaraj

· Jul 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

Naxal country: This book reveals the lives and deaths of men and women on both sides of the conflict

An excerpt from ‘The Death Script: Dreams And Delusions In Naxal Country’, by Ashutosh Bhardwaj.

Ashutosh Bhardwaj

· Jul 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

In this novel: What happens when a boy from a good family defies his father to go to America?

An excerpt from ‘Boys From Good Families’, a novel by Usha KR.

Usha KR

· Jul 27, 2020 · 07:52 am

How did Indian immigrants to the US become a ‘model minority’?

A new book points to a three-stage filter.

Sanjoy Chakravorty

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Devesh Kapur

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Nirvikar Singh

· Jul 27, 2020 · 07:32 am

What makes a show like ‘Indian Matchmaking’ possible? This book examines marriage in India

An excerpt from The Shaadi Story: Behind The Scenes Of The Big Fat Indian Wedding’, by Amita Nigam Sahaya.

Amita Nigam Sahaya

· Jul 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Estuary’ is Perumal Murugan’s first novel to be set in a town and not a village

An excerpt from Perumal Murugan’s novel ‘Estuary’, translated from the Tamil by Nandini Krishnan.

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 20, 2020 · 08:30 am