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A pointless epitaph: Clumsy retelling mars Coomar Narain scandal revisit

Kallol Bhattacherjee's 'A Singular Spy' attempts to tell an espionage tale but leaves many key questions unanswered

India's strategic autonomy and its role in a rebalanced global order

Ambassador Sujan Chinoy's book explores India's evolving global strategy, the impact of geopolitical shifts, and the importance of self-reliance in defence and diplomacy

Book review: Cat Bohannon's Eve traces the evolution of women's bodies

Bohannan's writing has a uniquely cinematic quality. She openly discusses topics we avoid talking about - nipples, fat, menstrual blood, armpits and more

'People Called Ladakh' explores the region's diverse cultures, communities

The book also spotlights Kargil, a city that most people still associate with the 1999 Indo-Pakistan war

Joy, profound responsibility: What makes 'teaching' the greatest profession

Jiddu Krishnamurti's book explores conditions that can help make teachers better at their profession. It stresses that freedom and love are essential for learning to happen

Digging with teeth: This book does some historical detective work

An Incisive History of Teeth, From Hagfish to Humans', Bill Schutt seeks to trace not just the history of individual creatures, but of all animal life on Earth, based entirely on teeth

Book review: Vikram Seth uses tech to enhance rhythm in Hanuman Chalisa

The short poem, running into just about 100 pages, has been translated with a lot of care and sensitivity keeping in mind what should make the poem more accessible to the readers

This Salman Khan book shows how AI can transform education systems globally

'Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)', by Khan Academy founder, is a valuable read for those puzzling over AI's role in education and society at large

Between Nakba and Shoah

'Israel has become its own ghetto, where Jews are less safe than Diaspora Jews,' says Kai Bird in his thought-provoking new memoir that leaves readers with much to think about

Just another brick in the wall

Through the eyes of Syeda, journalist Neha Dixit traces India's story, particularly Delhi's, over the last three decades-covering hot-button issues like gau rakshaks, corruption, CAA, and more

The contours of displacement

A collection of essays intricately weaves the stories of a Kashmiri family and their exodus from the Valley

The Raj and Hajj management

This is an outstanding contribution to a complex and under-researched aspect of imperialist rule as it was shaped in a specific area of colonial hegemony

Mixed feelings about identity

In Both, Not Half explores the diverse facets of mixed identity, going beyond individual experiences

The Indo-Japanese imperative

Packed with compelling anecdotes, data, and insights, Rajaram Panda's book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Indo-Japanese relations

The rights of the Nicobar forests

A collection of essays is a timely attempt at ringing alarm bells over the proposed project port project in the ecologically fragile Galathea Bay of Nicobar island

Outsiders in the mainstream

Michiko Kakutani's book dips into some compelling cases of outsiders driving change in the world

The rigours of resistance

In a milieu where civil society is demonised by the power establishment, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia's book is a successful attempt at humanising the dehumanised

A lesser-known history of maths

Madhava's work serves to make point that complex mathematics belongs to all people and all cultures in all periods, and that to dismiss historical work as ethnomathematics is to express a prejudice

In the footsteps of Ravana

The book traces his reign to the Kumana region using a mix of archaeological finds and the abundant regional legends and folklore around him

Anatomy of a democratic coup

How did the Weimar Republic, Germany's first democracy, fall to the Nazis? Takeover reprises the dramatic six months before Hitler's rise