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Firaq Gorakhpuri is widely regarded as being one of the best four or five poets ever to write in Urdu.

Firaq Gorakhpuri: A resourceful Indianness

Two recent books bring out his boldness and originality as a poet, as well as his larger-than-life persona.

Sanjay Van, a protected forest straddling Vasant Kunj and Mehrauli, is part of Delhi’s residual Aravalli range.

How green was my Dilli

Neha Sinha’s most recent book surveys Delhi’s vanishing rivers, wetlands, birds and native trees: what urbanisation has destroyed, what survives, and what can still be reintroduced, celebrated, and rewilded.

Malavika Karlekar

Social medicine

Healing Indian healthcare

Tilak Shankar’s timely book frames management as indispensable to health reform, but a genuine paradigm shift calls for higher public health spending and policies to contain excessive commercialisation.

The final countdown

Josy Joseph’s thoroughly researched account of the “three anxious weeks” leading up to August 15, 1947, reveals the hectic diplomatic manoeuvring that integrated hundreds of princely states into modern India.

Srinath Raghavan

Kite-flying is a recurring motif suggesting the innocence of childhood.

Lives of Muslims

Sorrows of Gibran

Looking at the world through the eyes of a guileless young boy, the novel questions the illogicality inherent in human constructs.

Dispatches from the manosphere

The experience of reading Meena Kandasamy’s new novel set in the terrifying universe of digital lynching is akin to a walk through a minefield.

Ravikant Kisana

It’s important to ‘teach’, but in a sly manner: Zai Whitaker

The conservationist and author on writing about nature for children, getting past “didactic solemnity”, and why young readers are ready for more sophisticated ecological stories.

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Ram Ramaswamy discusses D.D. Kosambi’s Marxism, science, and scholarship, and why India’s centralised education system leaves little room for thinkers like Kosambi.

In today’s education system, D.D. Kosambi would not have found a job: Ram Ramaswamy

The author and former vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad looks at Kosambi’s life and political ideas, against the backdrop of India’s increasingly centralised education system.

The Frontline bookshelf

The bookshelf features six books on family, grief, interfaith love, welfare rights, Asianism, and Indian anticolonialism.

Mridula Vijayarangakumar

Uttam Kumar as Arindam Mukherjee in a still from Nayak (1966).

A life like cinema itself

An extract from Uttam Kumar, A Life in Cinema by Sayandeb Chowdhury.

Sayandeb Chowdhury

Namdeo Dhasal, poet, activist, and co-founder of the Dalit Panther movement.

The surge and its shadow

Arjun Dangle’s timely volume offers a clear-eyed analysis and an unvarnished critique of the rise and fall of the radical, youth-led Dalit Panther movement in 1970s Maharashtra.

Purnachandra Naik

Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

Call of the abyss

Deepa Anappara’s novel underlines the undocumented cost of colonial conquests in lyrical prose, which transports the reader to the place and time she describes.

Amritesh Mukherjee

A diorama with figures of mujahideen fighters at Manzar-e-Jahad, the museum that commemorates the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion of 1979, in Herat, Afghanistan.

Unravelling jihad

Former IPS officer Anju Gupta explores the connection between terrorism in India and the Af-Pak terror infrastructure, joining the dots on how India came onto the jihadis’ radar.

New books on the shelves

A Hindi novel on the stranglehold of capitalism, a study that argues against dismissing welfare schemes as “freebies”, and more ...

In spite of spending time with the narrator-protagonist in her suburban US home, we come to know very little about her.

Confusingly elusive

The fact that Avni Doshi takes on a rich and commendable subject makes her novelistic failure to bring it alive a sadder one.

Saikat Majumdar

An installation depicting shoes on the banks of the Danube serves as a memorial to Jews massacred in the Second World War. Budapest, Hungary.

Gloom and doom

Nelio Biedermann’s much-celebrated debut novel is atmospheric and absorbing in parts but ultimately fails to live up to the hype.

Dakshayini Suresh

A Tata 1mg store in Bengaluru. Discounts on the healthcare platform 1mg shrank when it metamorphosed into Tata 1mg.

Healthcare, bought and sold

A new book prises open the Pandora’s box of Indian healthcare, tracing how global private equity has turned hospitals and pharmacies into profit machines.

BJP supporters at an election meeting addressed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath in Hasanpur, in the State’s Amroha district, in April 2024.

UPending democracy

Javed Gaya traces India’s majoritarian shift to the political dominance of the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh), unachieved federalism, and a unitary constitutional structure ill-suited for the nation.

Sukumar Muralidharan

Construction labourers head to a work site on a hot April morning in New Delhi.

Unmade in India

Two of India’s foremost labour economists demonstrate how India’s jobs crisis threatens its demographic dividend and call for urgent structural reforms to avoid losing the small shrinking window of opportunity.

Parakala Prabhakar

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