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Gossip, scandal and a perfect murder! Anuja Chauhan's whodunnit Club You to Death features a beautiful corpse, an unusual investigating officer in ACP Bhavani Singh, action set in Delhi's poshest club and a set of characters that gives the reader insights into everything from young love to privilege, politics and hypocrisy.

Gossip, scandal and a perfect murder! Anuja Chauhan's whodunnit Club You to Death features a beautiful corpse, an unusual investigating officer in ACP Bhavani Singh, action set in Delhi's poshest club and a set of characters that gives the reader insights into everything from young love to privilege, politics and hypocrisy.

Written by Jahnavi Misra, The Punished; Stories of Death Row Prisoners in India is based on interviews with condemned prisoners and their families done by the criminal justice centre, Project 39A. Great poverty, torture, and mental illness are recurring themes in this collection that aims to make readers understand the people we want to kill. 

Written by Jahnavi Misra, The Punished; Stories of Death Row Prisoners in India is based on interviews with condemned prisoners and their families done by the criminal justice centre, Project 39A. Great poverty, torture, and mental illness are recurring themes in this collection that aims to make readers understand the people we want to kill. 

The man who befriends crocodiles, the fate of the blind Gangetic dolphin, the joy of a flock of rosy starlings on a semal, and the tragedy of the Indian elephant - conservationist Neha Sinha, author of Wild & Wilful talks about all that in the Books & Authors podcast this week.

The man who befriends crocodiles, the fate of the blind Gangetic dolphin, the joy of a flock of rosy starlings on a semal, and the tragedy of the Indian elephant - conservationist Neha Sinha, author of Wild & Wilful talks about all that in the Books & Authors podcast this week.

Sunita Dwivedi, author of Buddha in Gandhara, travelled across Pakistan and Afghanistan to visit the numerous Buddhist sites there. In this episode of the Books & Authors podcast she talks about circumambulating a stupa in a burqa, staring in wonder at the architecture of the caves in Bamiyan, and of the great need to preserve Buddhist heritage sites across South Asia.

Sunita Dwivedi, author of Buddha in Gandhara, travelled across Pakistan and Afghanistan to visit the numerous Buddhist sites there. In this episode of the Books & Authors podcast she talks about circumambulating a stupa in a burqa, staring in wonder at the architecture of the caves in Bamiyan, and of the great need to preserve Buddhist heritage sites across South Asia.

Operation West End, match fixing, sting operations in public interest, and the current state of Indian journalism, Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan.

Operation West End, match fixing, sting operations in public interest, and the current state of Indian journalism, Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan.

From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Horse, Yashaswini Chandra talks of the import of horses from central Asia and Arabia, of the indigenous breeds like the Kathiawari and the Manipuri, of Shah Jahan's favourite piebald horse, of expert Maratha women equestrians, of artists like Bagta, and of Rajput legends in a fantastically horsey conversation on Books & Authors this week.

From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Horse, Yashaswini Chandra talks of the import of horses from central Asia and Arabia, of the indigenous breeds like the Kathiawari and the Manipuri, of Shah Jahan's favourite piebald horse, of expert Maratha women equestrians, of artists like Bagta, and of Rajput legends in a fantastically horsey conversation on Books & Authors this week.

The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more.

The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more.

CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his phenomenally talented wife Geeta Dutt and with Waheeda Rehman, the leading lady of his most memorable films - Yasser Usman looks at all that in this book on one of the great auteurs of commercial Hindi cinema.

CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his phenomenally talented wife Geeta Dutt and with Waheeda Rehman, the leading lady of his most memorable films - Yasser Usman looks at all that in this book on one of the great auteurs of commercial Hindi cinema.

The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan.

The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan.

Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of intelligent actors, and her irritation at being called a "woman director".  

Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of intelligent actors, and her irritation at being called a "woman director".