India, May 17 -- Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with reverse swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing h... Read More
India, May 10 -- Deepa Mandlik's Dynasties of Devotion, originally written in Marathi, examines historical contexts and myths associated with seven ancient temples across India and Cambodia. At the Ka... Read More
India, May 3 -- In the summer of 2021, India was hit by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hospitals ran out of oxygen; the death count kept rising. In that cruel summer, Andaleeb Wajid lost he... Read More
India, April 26 -- From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Telangana in 2014, the ... Read More
India, April 19 -- An adolescent set adrift in the Bay of Bengal, surrounded by an immensity of sea and sky, seagulls waiting to peck at his flesh, remembers a couplet his mother sang at bedtime, and ... Read More
India, April 12 -- Born in England to an Irish mother and an Indian father, Aubrey Menen navigated the contradictions of identity, nationality and belonging with irony and insight in his two classic a... Read More
India, April 5 -- In 1833, Frederic Tudor, an American businessman, made history when he shipped 180 lb of ice harvested from Walden Pond in Boston, to Calcutta. He soon built a flourishing trade expo... Read More
India, March 22 -- Most of us have travelled by train and experienced this side of India, shared food and stories with our fellow travellers, or reached the platform, gasping, to find the train leavin... Read More
India, March 15 -- Frank S Smythe (1900-1949) was one of the greatest mountaineers of the 20th century, and a celebrated memoirist and adventure writer. This collection brings together three accounts ... Read More