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The Citizenship Debate: CAA & NRC Amit Malviya and Salman Khurshid Rupa, Rs 295 Amid widespread protests, the Indian Parliament passed CAA on 11 December 2019. It...

Poignant short stories inspired by women around us

Richa Gupta’s stories in Slices of Life intend to offer a glimpse into the experiences of women who find themselves in a variety of...

Looking at past pandemics in the time of coronavirus

Ashoke Mukhopadhyay’s book, ably translated from Bengali into English by Arunava Sinha, takes the reader in the lanes of a plague-hit Bengal of the 18th and the 19th centuries.

This Plassey book isn’t a dumbed-down history

Sudeep Chakravarti’s Plassey is an extremely well-researched book which, thankfully, is not written in a pedant’s boring style, writes Bibek Debroy.
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Indians going back to their Ayurvedic roots

The new consumer values Indian-made products anchored in tradition. It was the subject of discussion at the conference organised by a TV news channel....

Poetry helps me get in touch with my soul, says Tanushi Singh

In these pandemic times, we all could do with a little soul-searching, won’t we? What better than some free therapy in the form of...

Books to look out for this week

My Genius Lunch Box Uma Raghuraman Penguin, Rs 299 This book by Uma Raghuraman is every parent’s go-to book for fifty fun, nutritious and simple vegetarian recipes...

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