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Food for thought

Two recent movies bring out the less savoury aspects of the worklife of delivery boys

Dialogue inside-out

Any quest to explore our interconnectedness with fellow humans and other species is incomplete unless we try to understand and embrace our own selves

Pashtunwali and Islam

Tilak Devasher's deep study of this ethnic group explains how it negotiates its identity and religiosity in a deeply contested geography

Food and feelings amid spells of imaginary rain: Chef Vikas Khanna

Khanna takes Chintan Girish Modi through his journey to the Michelin Star, which started with his Biji's kitchen

Rewriting the lit fest script

The criticism that Indian literature festivals prioritise English to the detriment of other languages has sparked off much soul-searching among curators

Coffee with BS: Meet Sudha Murty, the technocrat-turned-children's writer

Murty, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan last week, tells Chintan Girish Modi why she thinks kids connect with her as a grandmother

A robust brew

Author shows how the history of coffee is intertwined with histories of colonisation, indentured labour, war, migration, and destruction of tropical forests to meet the demand for cash crops

The addiction stigma

It is worth thinking about the deeper reasons that make people depend, often against their wishes, upon substances that ruin their health and their relationships

Remembering the genius

Ramanujan's birthday, December 22, is now celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India

Let's get graphic

From history to sports to business, authors and artists are exploring graphic non-fiction as a literary form

Interpreter of languages

It is a contemplative collection of essays examining her own experience with translation, and her identity as a translator

The contested terrains of lit fests

Literature festivals aren't truly inclusive, but even so, they offer significant opportunities for networking that people can't afford to lose out on

Behind the good wife

Gandhi's great-grandson recreates Kasturba's life from her diary and presents a woman bound by a patriarchal society but hardly a doormat

Crossing the LGBTQIA+ bar

Maya Sharma attempts to capture narratives of the Queer experience beyond the big city setting

Pakistan floods: Awash in suffering

It may be time for India to demonstrate what good neighbourliness looks like

The unsung victims of 1857

Rana Safvi offers an evocative translation of an account that recalled how Mughal royals, especially women, suffered after the exile of Bahadur Shah Zafar

Revolution and the freedom struggle

In this book, you will meet communists who questioned the idea of freedom propagated by the Indian National Congress

Hindi, Hindu sans Hindutva

A fascinating account shows how much of the maverick writer and polymath's thinking was rooted in cosmopolitanism

An idea of inclusive India

A book of essays captures the Jewish diaspora's experience of philo-Semitism in the country

Star power on bookshelves

The struggles of living in Mumbai to work in Bollywood also show up in actor Kubbra Sait's debut as an author