Meet Mohammed Sleem, the ‘first Indian tennis superstar’

‘The first native Indian to win a major championship in India and stamp his name firmly in the annals of Indian tennis.’

Anindya Dutta

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

Ruttie: This biography reveals what we did not know about the woman who married Jinnah

An excerpt from ‘The Woman Who Stood Defiant: Ruttie Jinnah’, by Saad S Khan with Sara S Khan.

Saad S Khan with Sara S Khan

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

In Pakistan’s Balochistan province, looking for the goddess Kottari Devi and finding Bibi Nani

Edited excerpts from a book of essays on Hindu temples dedicated to the many manifestations of the goddess.

Alka Pande

· Jan 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Murder at the Mushaira’: A poet is murdered, and the detective chasing the killer is Mirza Ghalib

An excerpt from Raza Mir’s historical novel set in the Delhi of 1857 and after, with a crime driving the narrative.

Raza Mir

· Jan 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

Ghalib in Banaras, Banaras in Ghalib: A new critical biography rereads the legendary poet’s life

An excerpt from ‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep’, by Mehr Afshan Farooqi.

Mehr Afshan Farooqi

· Jan 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Bihar, an absent State has pushed its people into coming up with imperfect replacements

Why bahubalis and coaching centres thrive – and why dubbed Tamil and Telugu films are so popular.

M Rajshekhar

· Jan 18, 2021 · 08:30 am

Why Gurugram is ‘a city of black and white with grey spaces missing’

An urban theorist’s perspective on the megapolis previously known as Gurgaon.

Suptendu P Biswas

· Jan 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Mohandas Gandhi on student life in London, finding a vegetarian meal, and dancing lessons

An excerpt from a new autobiography that retraces Gandhi’s childhood, formative years in Porbandar and London, and his activist phase in South Africa.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

· Jan 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

Sanitation crusader Bindeshwar Pathak on tackling manual scavenging: ‘I cannot just sit and watch’

An excerpt from a biography of the founder of the company that builds Sulabh toilets.

Y Ravindranath Rao

· Jan 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry

A love story from the ghazal-writer’s life, and four ghazals.

Gopi Chand Narang

· Jan 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why Ashish Khetan wrote a book about his discoveries from going undercover during the Gujarat riots

‘I had always believed that, at some point, I would have to tell the full story of what I witnessed in Gujarat.’

Ashish Khetan

· Jan 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

Ved Mehta (1934-2020) on how life changed after losing his vision at the age of three-and-a-half

The writer died on Sunday, January 10, in New York at the age of 86.

Ved Mehta

· Jan 12, 2021 · 08:30 am