Shivshankar Menon on why Kishore Mahbubani’s book Has China Won? should be read

Ajai Sahni applauds journalist Andrew Quilty’s reportage in August in Kabul: America’s Last Days in Kabul and the Return of the Taliban

Shobhit Mahajan is disappointed with Tim Marshall’s latest book The Future of Geography on astropolitics and the new space race

Siddiq Wahid reviews Anthony Sattin's 'articulate and ambitious' grand sweep history, Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Krishnan Srinivasan on John Keay’s 'interesting and instructive' exploration of the Himalaya

Manoj Mitta’s new book Caste Pride is a corrective to dominant narratives that caste
is ‘a mere relic’ of the past, says K Chandru

In Kalyan Kumar Das’s opinion,
Ashok Gopal’s biography A Part Apart ‘underscores the essentially intellectual nature of Ambedkar’s being’

Manisha Sethi reviews two books on Secularism in South Asia: Neeti Nair’s Hurt Sentiments and J Barton Scott’s Slandering the Sacred

Anushka Singh commends Rohan J Alva’s timely book A Constitution to Keep on free speech and constitutional dissent in India

V Geetha on KG Kannabiran’s Sisyphean Life in Law, translated by Kalpana Kannabiran

Paula Richman looks at two exhibition catalogues on Mithila Art’s journey from
mud to paper: Tradition and Transformation: Mithila Art in India edited by Kathryn Myers and Raja Salhesh’s Garden: Contemporary Dalit Art & Ancient Myths of Mithila, Vol.1 edited by John H. Bowles and Andrew S. Arbury

Amiya P Sen on Ruth Hariss’s 'comprehensive, insightful and engaging' biography - Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda

S Irfan Habib's biography of Maulana Azad, India’s first education minister, is providential at a time when concerted efforts are trying to wipe him off the country’s canvas, says Syeda Hameed

Satish K Aikant journeys with Mystics and Sceptics: In Search of Himalayan Masters an anthology of essays edited by Namita Gokhale

Argha Kumar Banerjee reviews the English translation of Bengali writer Sankar's memoir Eka Eka Ekashi by Arunava Sinha

Milinda Banerjee remembers Ranajit Guha founder of the Subaltern Studies collective