Books For Our Times

From Muslims in history to Muslims today, this book traces the lives of followers of Islam in India

In ‘Born A Muslim’, Ghazala Wahab skilfully combines personal memories and experience, history and reportage.

Abdullah Khan
· Mar 20, 2021 · 12:30 pm
This memoir will remind all students (including IIT aspirants) what education is all about

Tara Westover’s bestselling memoir explores the forgotten essence of education.

Nishant Kauntia
· Jul 14, 2019 · 07:30 am
Beyond ‘State versus Maoists’: Two books that explain the complexities in Bastar

As a new government takes charge in Chhattisgarh, here are two books that go beyond the rhetoric.

Mieke van Hemert
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Madhu Ramnath
· Dec 15, 2018 · 06:30 pm

This novel reminds us how a creative artist dealt with the might of a (Leftist) totalitarian state

In Julian Barnes’s ‘The Noise of Time’ composer Shostakovich rebels where possible, accepts his fate where not.

Karthick Ram Manoharan
· Apr 02, 2017 · 07:00 am