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WORLD BOOK DAY: Books about books
For World Book Day on April 23, we bring together a list of books about books as a means to glimpse at and tap into the vast knowledge, power, and pleasure that is to be found in these complex...
Chapters on Mughals, Islamic empires removed from classes 11, 12 syllabi in India
India’s Central Board of Secondary Education has removed chapters on the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, chronicles of Mughal courts...
WORLD BOOK DAY: Books about books
For World Book Day on April 23, we bring together a list of books about books as a means to glimpse at and tap into the vast knowledge, power, and pleasure that is to be found in these complex...
Denise Mina’s ‘Rizzio’: A bloody slice of Scottish history
In 2021, Polygon, an Edinburgh-based publisher, launched the Darkland Tales, a series of “dramatic fictional retellings of stories from history, myth and legend” written by Scotland’s greatest...
Stories of the liberation war, and how we must never forget to pass it on
Fifty years have now passed since that glorious day in December 1971 when we achieved victory after a battle for nine months.
In 'Thug', Mike Dash myth-busts British India’s cult of stranglers
It is nearly impossible to know nothing about British India’s infamous cult that systematically killed and robbed Indian travelers for hundreds of years. However, almost every write-up available...
Staff picks for Nonfiction November
Cleghorn pairs her personal experiences and traces through history how women's bodies have been taught to be hidden and shamed, instead of being taken as what it is—a biological entity.
Gilgamesh through the sands of time
Unlike the blind, brilliant bard who is thought to have conceived Iliad and Odyssey, or Ved Vyas who put the tale of Mahabharata on paper with the help of a potbellied deity, and unlike, also,...
Nazrul, Rabindranath, and Their Admiration for Each Other
Today is the 45th death anniversary of the younger of the two icons.
In Suchitra Vijayan’s new book, borders are as arbitrary as history
In Midnight's Borders (Westland Publications, 2021), author and photographer Suchitra Vijayan travels the 9,000 miles of India's borders to understand what Partition did to individual...
7 recent books on the Partition of India
With this list, we bring to attention the books recently released which deal with the politics and loss associated with this defining moment in history, in the form of both fiction and nonfiction.