Book Excerpts

Eight-year-old Benazir, Bena to friends and family, is perhaps the happiest child you know, fond of jalebis, limericks and raw mangoes. She is surrounded by friends and family, and her life is everything an idyllic childhood should be: protected, loved and edged with rainbow-gold. One summer that bubble bursts when

There has been an unprecedented rise in citizen-led protest movements in India in the last decade or so. People from all walks of life and age groups have spoken up and risen to fight for their rights.  This, however, is not a new phenomenon. Protests in India go back to

Miss Muffet. More like Miss Spider, given the web of gossip she spins in the name of journalism. Nobody knew whether Miss Muffet was one person or a team of people, if it was a woman or a man, young or old, or some sort of bot on the Internet.

India’s China Challenge tells the story of a complex political relationship, and how China – and its leading opinion-makers – view India. It looks at the economic dimensions and cultural connect, and the internal political and social transformations in China that continue to shape both the country’s future and its relations

In his first book, India’s Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971, Arjun Subramaniam attempted to set this right by taking readers on a journey until the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020 takes the story forward, including insurgencies in the north-east, terrorism and proxy wars in Jammu