On the brink of the 70th year of the Republic, a reaffirmation of the radical message of the Constitution

Amitabha Bagchi, winner of the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, on how great art bonds communities, why narratives can be constraining and the role of the middle class in a democracy.

On a murder investigation, two detectives find themselves fighting populism in a polarising world.

An analytical inquiry into the development experience of some of Asia’s major economies and why there might be ground for optimism

An eloquent account of how public policy needs urgent re-imagination

Damyanti Biswas delivers a riveting debut that thrills, but doesn’t sensationalise the violence it is born of

A much-needed compilation of folk stories that are fast receding from memory

The findings of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists signal the biggest mass incarceration of a minority since the Holocaust

The book is a collection of aphoristic paragraphs arranged, apparently, in a fan-shaped design. The pretty cover seems to play with this idea, to take the reader on a journey from the outer to the inner, from arrival to the end and a new beginning.

The author is a conscientious insider who held senior positions in the government and is the rare civil servant who, during his years in office, occasionally put down his contrarian views in writing, even if these offended the powers that be.

A timely account of the ways in which harnessing technology can help the disempowered citizenry

Stephen Alter’s exhaustive biography of the Himalayas is an exceptional tribute to the world’s mightiest mountains

Rachel Goenka revels in marrying impossibly diverse ingredients, but the matrimony isn't rocky; instead, these are instances of opposites — balsamic vinegar and chocolate, goat's cheese and sugar, and coffee with cream cheese — co-existing in perfect harmony.

Astrophysicist, planetarium director, popular author, television personality and inheritor of the mantle of Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson is the author of 16 books of popular science. He spoke to the Indian Express about his new book, Letters from an Astrophysicist, a compilation of this correspondence

A taut ethnographic work that offers new imaginaries for preserving natural environments

An inside job on panoptic state surveillance in the name of national security, and its chilling effect on citizens.

A short but extremely detailed anecdotal perspective on the Western Ghats rainforest

Margaret Atwood’s latest reveals the insidious armature of Gilead — an oppressive political order we are uncomfortably familiar with

A collection of tales that dissects the inner life of Malayali society

An authoritative and insightful book on Pakistan and its place in an ever-changing world

Growing up Rohingya, an account of the horror that a narrow vision of nationhood and nationality can wreak on the people

Despite some omissions, an eclectic volume of writings by one of India’s longest-serving politicians.

Sharp vignettes of Delhi’s past, but this smooth translation lacks a woman author’s perspective

Manu was the Mahatma’s witness more than once: her diaries, finally out, help decode his most controversial experiment