Deshpande’s recently released book Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi, encapsulates the life of this talented young man who was killed on the first day of 1989, when he was only 34.

The central theme, across the essays by journalists, writers, poets and academics from Kashmir is that the popular Indian imagination is wrong.

A Dalit insider’s experiment with touchables

A translation of Tagore’s memoir seeks to take it to a global audience

An unusual piece of writing on music, TM Krishna’s new book captures the issues of caste and purity that underlie the tradition of making and playing the mrdangam

It is too easy to dismiss reformers like Montek as elitist. They may make errors of judgment, but they often had more faith in Indians than many of those who yelped loudly in the name of the poor.

So All Is Peace tells its readers how rigged the system is, how unfairly skewed it is in favour of men and how it is the complicity of men in taking advantage of their position in a patriarchal setup that leads to the horrors we see in the news every day.

American writer Elizabeth Gilbert on shaking up literary templates and holding up her scars to the light.

Peru-born Chilean writer Isabel Allende, 77, who describes herself as a ‘novelist, feminist, and philanthropist’ on carrying her family name with pride, immersing herself in poetry before a new work and her latest novel.

An original thinker, George Steiner’s mark on our intellectual scene is indelible.

A valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex historiography of the Himalayas and the role of Tibet, India and China in this strategic zone.

An empathetic novel about the feminine experience in a world of inequality.

China — like other powers that have dominated the international system — seeks hegemony and the Indian Ocean is an increasingly crucial area of operations for it to achieve this end.

Shortly after the lynching of Pehlu Khan, Tavleen Singh was granted an audience with the Prime Minister, and found him somewhat changed.

What bound three of India’s eminent medievalists together? Friendship and a respect for scholarship and diversity, says TCA Raghavan in his new book.

A comprehensive account tracing the history of the Lokpal movement, and locating its relevance in contemporary times.

The Tribune archive sheds light on a dark spot in India’s political history.

A collection of stories that speak to and of teenage spirit, with all its dark shades.

Unless it’s Ib and his relentless pursuit of meaning. An account that reaffirms how the journey is often all there is

Manoranjan Byapari, who was shortlisted for the DSC Prize, tells The Indian Express what the NRC means, and why he would rather go to jail than to a detention camp

An unsentimental, evocative study of a killer and the crime that tears his life asunder.

An intrepid reporter’s account of how the NaMo effect mesmerised voters across the country.

An ‘archive rat’s’ account of the extraordinary life of V K Krishna Menon.

Isabel Allende’s new novel is billed as a 20th century Latin American War and Peace. It recalls September 3, 1939, the day Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany, following the annexation of Poland.