An evocative novel that reconstructs the time from 1857 till Gandhi’s assassination.

Brearley's latest book, On Cricket, traverses 50 years of the sport with palpable intellectual curiosity. It’s the work of a person who delighted in the aesthetics of the sport even when he was competing.

An extraordinary book that looks at the people beyond the mob involved in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

An academic’s poignant account of visiting the Line of Control from either side of the Indo-Pakistan border.

A fascinating and important visual document of the photo culture of Peshawar.

How technology is chipping away at the very fabric of socio-political exchange.

Set in the volatile times of the 1980s — in the backdrop of communal tension between the Khasis and Bengalis — the novel begins on a highly promising note.

Shashi Deshpande’s memoir is an eloquent account, but if only it plumbed the depths more.

An exquisite tale of the push-and-pull of desire in a world that is in constant flux.

A rich bounty of non-fiction narratives explains a rapidly changing world; the best of fiction mines the human heart

Mukherjee’s debut novel, Dark Circles, explores the human frailty — the inability of the living to hold the dead to account for their faults and fallacies.

Next year: new books by Amitav Ghosh, HM Naqvi and Toni Morrison

Free from the responsibilities of office, Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic advisor to the government, has produced an insider’s account of the chakravyuh of policy-making in India.

The state election results have mellowed TV warriors. So, is it the end of the prizefighting era?

Author Yuval Noah Harari discusses humanity’s fictions about matters as diverse as revolution and the possibility of a dystopic world without women

In its choice of authors and texts, an anthology of Bangla pop lit misses its target by a whisker.

The theoretical physicist who wandered into chemistry and learned crystallography to answer one of biology’s oldest questions

Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi examines love and friendship in this unusual illustrated novel

An informed account of the periodic table, and how chemistry relates to the world around and within us

Nadia Murad’s life in captivity and after, and the violence she, and other Yazidis, endured at the hands of ISIS

The book, in a nutshell, “is a powerful indictment of the Modi government's performance” as former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh puts it.

In his second novel, Polite Society, Mahesh Rao chooses to transplant Austen’s Emma in crazy rich south Delhi.

The Great Smog of India begins by clearly calling out the apathy, making all of us complicit in its severe ill effects to human health, quality of life, economic growth, and India’s soft power.

Scenes of startling beauty and pathos punctuate this story shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.