Patil’s rationale for choosing the elusive pangolin as the leitmotif for this book — the creature is in least conflict with humans and is yet endangered — is reinforced by the public...

Manju Kapur, too, emphasizes research as key to situating her novels. She can imagine Delhi, Lahore or Amritsar in the past more richly for having trawled through the archives, talked to people, and t...

However, this is a book of limited ambition. The author does not delve into a detailed study of the differences among ideologically-regimented parties, caste/community-based parties and umbrella parti...

The choice of the seven is eclectic. Three Indians make it to the list, two from the realm of social and political ideas and one from the omnipresent world of spirituality: Arundhati Roy, Kancha Ilaia...

Compiling ominous statistics on air pollution, she warns that the phenomenon is triggering lifestyle changes and adding to the burden of non-communicable diseases. Worse still are the psychological tr...

When the amateur and the elite run into each other, there comes a moment of eye-opening clarity of the distance between the two worlds through a ball bowled or a shot played. As he writes of himself, ...

In his bestselling autobiography, The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books (2014), Carey invariably chose to illustrate what he found most appealing (or repulsive) about a book thro...

The ability to imagine is very critical as Eliza realizes when Rachel wakes her up in the middle of the night, crying in pain, after an ant that bit the corner of her eye goes into her eye. Eliza, the...

The oversimplicity of Kelton’s MMT, while making it attractive for uninitiated readers, also accounts for its unsound macroeconomic foundations, as did its predecessor, Abba Lerner’s theor...

In spite of these notable achievements, there are noticeable gaps. While the few social history analyses will peak the interests of historians, explanations of how marginalized communities in the glob...