Books

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...

Sudhir Vidyarthi’s Bidai De Ma! is not about martyrs, but the women who made them. Through their letters, memories, and silence, he rebuilds the...

Neena Nehru’s The Revolutionaries captures the restless, questioning spirit of the 1960s generation — a class of privileged idealists caught between...

Soni Pandey’s 'Suno Kabir' captures Azamgarh’s Ibrahimpur—its weaving tradition, fractured Hindu-Muslim ties, and women reshaping identity—portraying...

Sunil Gavaskar’s Straight Drive goes beyond cricketing memories, blending personal reflections, societal critique, and a vision for India’s sporting...