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Manish Gaekwad: “Nautch Boy: A memoir of my life in the Kothas” and “The Last Courtesan: Writing My Mother’s Memoir”

Manish Gaekwad was the only child of a courtesan, so he grew up in the kothas or a brothel. Courtesans would be defined as prostitutes
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“This is For Everyone” by Tim Berners-Lee

09 09 , 2025 No Comments

The groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This is the story of our modern age. The most influential
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“Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life” by Jason Roberts

05 09 , 2025 No Comments

The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their
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“The Shortest History of Migration” by Ian Goldin

05 09 , 2025 No Comments

From the earliest human wanderings to the rise of the digital nomad For hundreds of thousands of years, the ability of Homo sapiens to travel across vast
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“Kanchhi” by Weena Pun

02 09 , 2025 No Comments

Nepali writer Weena Pun’s writings have appeared in Himal Southasian, the Kathmandu Post, The Record, “House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About
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“Mustard: A Global History” by Demet Guzey

31 08 , 2025 No Comments

The Edible Series launched by Reaktion Books in the UK and licensed by Pan Macmillan India is a brilliant set of books on food. At
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“Telling Me My Stories: Fragments of a Himalayan Childhood” by Kunzang Choden

29 08 , 2025 No Comments

My first introduction to Kunzang Choden was when her manuscript The Circle of Karma was placed on my desk. It was one of the first
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“The Dravidian Pathway: How the DMK Redefined Power and Identity in South India” by Vignesh Rajahmani

28 08 , 2025 No Comments

Politics at the best of times can be bewildering. So, when a book like The Dravidian Pathway comes along, one can only hope it provides
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“If Russia Wins: A Scenario” by Carlo Masala, translated by Olena Ebel and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

27 08 , 2025 No Comments

If Russia Wins: A Scenario by political scientist and expert for international security policy, Carlo Masala has just been released in English. It has been
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“The Names” by Florence Knapp

26 08 , 2025 No Comments

Cora is used to sudden explosions that come at a light being left on, or realising too late she’s been overly friendly in the way
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