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A novel in dialogue: Two strangers share a flat in the maddening city of Mumbai

An excerpt from ‘The Sea’, by Swati Guha. Translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy.

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This Indian American consultant's new book is on using war games to build corporate competitiveness

An excerpt from ‘Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games’, by Arjan Singh.

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Joya Chatterji's 'Shadows at Noon' wins best history book at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Awards

Published by Yale University Press in the US and Penguin in India, it tells the subcontinent’s story from the British Raj to independence and partition.

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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India

A psychoanalyst, novelist and writer in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, Sudhir Kakar died on 22 April at the age of 86.

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Novoneel Chakraborty's thriller: A girl looks for her sister who went missing from an elite school

An excerpt from ‘The Heartbreak Club: One Girl vs One Twisted Legacy’.

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An online content creator explains in her book why it's better to learn from peers than to compete

An excerpt from ‘She’ll Never Make It: From Doubt to Dominance’, by Masoom Minawala and Aditi Shah Bhimjyani.

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Fiction: Mahmud and Ayaz travel from Somnath to Kashmir as questions of citizenship arise

An excerpt from ‘Mahmud and Ayaz’, by R Raj Rao.

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What were Rabindranath Tagore's views on the proposal of a memorial at the Jallianwala Bagh?

An excerpt from ‘The Jallianwala Bagh Journals’, by Sarmistha Dutta Gupta.

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'We can remake this world': This book of poems travels through places where people rise in protest

An excerpt from ‘Yes, There Will Be Singing: Poems’, by Hamraaz.

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'On tolerance': Publisher-poet Naveen Kishore on the dilemmas of the artistic intellect

Kishore reflects on learning the virtue of staying close to one’s belief and one’s practice.

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