Romit Bagchi's book on Darjeeling and the Gorkhaland movement rings hollow.
A new book exposes the myths behind India's 'growth miracle', and looks for ways out of the ecological and social devastation of the current neoliberal model.
Does Vijay Prashad’s Uncle Swami do justice to the US ‘desi’ identity?
Perry Anderson’s ‘The Indian Ideology’ bores through the orthodoxies of Indian nationalist history.
Meena Menon’s book does Mumbai a service, recording personal accounts of the Mumbai riots, and showing us what they mean for the city today.
A recently unearthed diary brings a fresh perspective to the lesser-known British foray into what we now call Nepal.
Delving into ‘The Harappa Files’, and Sarnath Banerjee’s insights into India today.
The book makes a devastating critique of the ‘growth at any cost paradigm’.
The murky events of Kashmir’s 1995 hostage crisis are well-documented in a new book, but still defy closure.
Pankaj Mishra’s look at intellectual history gives Asia’s tradition of anti-imperialist thought a pre-history.
Shashi Tharoor's book on foreign policy treads old ground.
