Arati Kumar-Rao’s Marginlands takes readers through India’s vanishing landscapes, showing how climate change, development, and ecological neglect affect ordinary people.
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar follows Esther Greenwood, a promising young woman whose life slowly gives way to alienation, depression, and a crisis of identity.
Michael M. Grynbaum’s Empire of the Elite tells the story of Condé Nast, the magazine empire behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker.
Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional is a quiet, reflective novel about a middle-aged woman who leaves Sydney, returns to her childhood town, and lives in
Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women exposes how gender data bias shapes everyday life, from healthcare and workplaces to transport, technology, public policy, and design.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny explores loneliness, relationships, family dynamics, and literary realism across India and America, along with thoughts on pacing, class, and
Vidya Krishnan’s Phantom Plague traces the history and present crisis of tuberculosis, showing how stigma, poverty, drug resistance, pharma patents, and public-health failure continue to
Audrey Truschke’s India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent offers a broad overview of Indian history, political myths, social reform, caste, women, and historical
Maggots, Murder, and Men by Zakaria Erzinclioglu, exploring forensic entomology, real crimes, and the science of insects.
Jyoti Yadav’s Faith and Fury documents the human cost of Covid in India’s villages and small towns, focusing on migrant workers, rural distress, state failure,
Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian is a book that examines the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the USA, highlighting colonialism, displacement, and the
A concise and engaging review of The Making of Canada by Greg Koabel, tracing the country’s formation from early European exploration to Confederation through the
Romila Thapar’s Somanatha – The Many Voices of History dismantles the popular myths surrounding the Somnath temple, showing how medieval chronicles, colonial historians, and modern
The Vegetarian by Han Kang—an unsettling novel about patriarchy, silence, and the cost of saying no.
Anita Anand’s Sophia tells the remarkable story of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh, and her journey from royal exile to suffragette
Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger explores identity, social media, conspiracy theories, political distortion, digital selves, and the unsettling mirror world of modern life.
A deeply unsettling account of how profit, negligence, and regulatory failure can turn medicine into a weapon. The Truth Pill exposes what happens when human
Han Kang’s Greek Lessons is a quiet, unsettling novel about silence, language, loss, memory, and the fragile ways human beings try to reach one another.
Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending is a quiet, beautifully written novel about memory, remorse, ageing, friendship, and how we reshape the story of
Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us is Manu Joseph’s first non-fiction book, and it asks a disturbing question: why do India’s poor endure injustice without