Prose: Non-Fiction

Sri Aurobindo dedicated his life to the transformation of humanity. His journey saw him traverse many paths, including that of poet, journalist, ja...

In the 1970s, Rajesh Khanna achieved the kind of fame that no film star had ever experienced before-or has since. But then he saw it all vanish. Th...

In her second book, award-winning actor Divya Dutta recounts her experiences with some of the stalwarts of Bollywood who played a significant role ...

Thirty years ago, Karimul Hak lost his mother because he could not afford an ambulance and there was no other way to take her to the hospital. Howe...

Spread over fifteen of the country''s twenty-eight states, PBI - India''s Maoist movement is now one of the PBI - World''s biggest and most sophist...

In late-nineteenth-century Kerala, a man flamboyantly rode a villuvandi (bullock cart) along a road. What might sound like a mundane act was, at th...

When Ruttie Petit fled from her father's castle to wed Mohammed Ali Jinnah in 1918, their marriage outraged society at large. They were divided by ...

One of the world's oldest forms of faith, Hinduism has an unbroken trajectory of beliefs and rituals that have continued for many millennia through...

Healed is the powerful, moving and deeply personal story of actor Manisha Koirala's battle against ovarian cancer. From her treatment in the US and...

Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, an...

Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography and the experience of a live, open worldThese essays all explore Scottish subje...