Overtreatment, health check-ups as money-spinners, and tricky referrals - Abantika Ghosh's book is a helpful guide on how to navigate the complex web of medical care in India
Electric vehicles promise a green future, but the dirty reality of battery supply chains raises a harder question: climate solution-or the next environmental and human cost?
Gaza, the city, is as old as the Old Testament in which it finds a mention. Gaza, the modern-day strip, was born in 1948, its fate entwined with the establishment and expansion of Israel
Jung Chang revisits her life, her mother, and modern China in Fly, Wild Swans, a reflective coda to her landmark memoir and a meditation on memory, freedom and power
They lived under British rule, struggled to overcome racial barriers, and contended with inadequate resources, yet left the world healthier through their groundbreaking discoveries
Despite all the pledges that an Emergency will never happen again, this book asks whether India is worse off today than it was when fundamental rights were suspended
Vasili Mitrokhin's lonely defiance inside the KGB reveals how a rotting security state hastened the Soviet collapse - and how its ghosts still haunt Russia today
A sharp, funny and deeply personal memoir, The Outsider traces how Vir Das's life across continents shaped the voice of India's most global stand-up comic
The personal story of a father and son provides insights into Chinese society, politics, and geopolitics, showing how the impulse to control and expand the Chinese empire is stronger than ever today
Guilt-driven environmentalism that favours moral absolutism and blames individuals for inaction on climate issues is the wrong approach to climate action
Eric Lichtblau's American Reich traces the murder of Blaze Bernstein to the wider, chilling rise of neo-Nazi violence and white supremacy in contemporary America
Anuradha Roy's Called by the Hills is a luminous, reflective memoir of building a life in the Himalayas-where gardens, memories and ecology quietly intertwine
The book is interested in not just the stories of the women who amassed immense wealth and wielded great power, but those whose quiet labour laid the building blocks of history