Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
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 activism.
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Doppelganger
Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger explores identity, social media, conspiracy theories, political distortion, digital selves, and the unsettling mirror world of modern life.
Greek Lessons
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.
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me is a memoir about her mother Mary Roy, their complex relationship, Roy’s writing life, politics, memory, and becoming a writer.
The Many Lives of Syeda X
Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X tells the story of an invisible woman worker whose life reveals the realities of migration, informal labour, poverty, gender, and survival in India.
Heart Lamp
Heart Lamp is an emotional and evocative read. It is a portal that takes the readers into a world where we see it through the eyes of women. And it is not a gentle and just world – though the stories are of Muslim women, but they hold true for the poor and marginalized women of all religions.
The Incarcerations
Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations examines the Bhima Koregaon case, the BK-16, planted evidence, dissent, democracy, and the targeting of activists in India.
The Patient Assassin
Anita Anand’s The Patient Assassin tells the story of Sardar Udham Singh, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Michael O’Dwyer, revenge, memory, and colonial injustice.
My Seditious Heart
My Seditious Heart is a collection of essays by Arundhati Roy written over the past two decades. The essays are on wide variety of subjects but the crux of all is social justice for the marginalized, calling out the governments for their flawed, unsustainable, and anti-people policies and a passionate appeal for humanity.
By Hands Now Known
By Hands Now Known is a doorway to the history of injustice in the Jim Crow era, providing an insight into the atrocities faced by people