Books

From demography to cartography, from tribal politics to representation, and from nationalism to leadership ethics — these six titles deepen...

Her novels may belong to another century, but Jane Austen’s worlds — full of wit, warmth, frailty and grace — remain astonishingly contemporary in...

'Charlie’s Boys' is a deeply nostalgic memoir that traces boyhood, discipline and growing up at St Columba’s as India itself moved through profound...

As India’s freedom struggle entered its most radical phase, revolutionaries, moderates and the press collided—revealing enduring tensions between...

In the first part of this review of Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper, we return to the Lahore-Jalandhar world where a fearless press tradition was born

Nusrat Jafri traces a family’s journey across caste, tribe, faith and history, revealing how identity is always layered, inherited and beautifully...

Mona Verma’s The Scent of Himalayas is a luminous collection of 20 stories that traverse the Himalayan arc, blending folklore, ecology, myth and...

S. Natesh’s 'Iconic Trees of India' gathers India’s most iconic trees into a single, sprawling narrative—part travelogue, part science, part cultural...

Makarand Paranjape’s Hindutva and Hind Swaraj seeks to heal India’s fractured historical imagination by exploring how Gandhi and Savarkar, opposites...

In Above and Beyond, Shiv Kumar Mohanka compiles an extraordinary aviation chronicle — from early air balloons and warplanes to drones and digital...

Through luminous simplicity and emotional precision, Adhir Biswas lays bare the architecture of caste and the quiet heroism of survival, reminding us...

Through Sophia’s fractured childhood, turbulent youth, and tangled relationships, Alina Gufran’s No Place to Call My Own captures the ache of...