Meena Menon’s book does Mumbai a service, recording personal accounts of the Mumbai riots, and showing us what they mean for the city today.
A recently unearthed diary brings a fresh perspective to the lesser-known British foray into what we now call Nepal.
Delving into ‘The Harappa Files’, and Sarnath Banerjee’s insights into India today.
The book makes a devastating critique of the ‘growth at any cost paradigm’.
The murky events of Kashmir’s 1995 hostage crisis are well-documented in a new book, but still defy closure.
Pankaj Mishra’s look at intellectual history gives Asia’s tradition of anti-imperialist thought a pre-history.
Shashi Tharoor's book on foreign policy treads old ground.
Enduring mysteries surround a 6th century Tamil poet-saint and her work.
Contemporary Bollywood films seem to travel through borders and generations with an uncanny ease. Writings on the journey, however, are not as effortless.
Mukul Sharma’s take on Hindutva’s influence on environmentalism ignores the remarkable hybrid nature of India’s ecological movement.
A blinkered look at the future of US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan continues to place hope in those who have failed so far.
A new book justifies Kashmiri secession, but the scholarly appraisal ignores the full complexity of the crisis.
