From the biography: Why RD Karve’s ‘Samaaj-swaasthya’ magazine advocated birth control in the 1920s

Anant Deshmukh Nadeem Khan

· May 14, 2025 · 08:30 am

Biography: How John Matthai, India’s second finance minister, handled the devaluation of the rupee

Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy

· May 13, 2025 · 08:30 am

From the biography: Mirra Alfassa aka The Mother’s early days in India as a Frenchwoman

Peter Heehs

· Apr 30, 2025 · 08:30 am

Biography: The story of Naib Subedar Chunni Lal, the most decorated Indian Army soldier in history

Satish Dua

· Apr 17, 2025 · 01:30 pm

A doctor’s biography: Opthalmologist Virender Singh Sangwan’s early years in studying the cornea

Rajroshan Poojari

· Apr 04, 2025 · 05:30 pm

A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister

Sanjeev Chopra

· Mar 31, 2025 · 08:30 am

A new biography of RSS’s founder KB Hedgewar recounts Gandhi’s impression of its training camps

Sachin Nandha

· Mar 24, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Soumitra Chatterjee and His World’: A moving tribute to a beloved Bengali icon

Rush Mukherjee

· Mar 22, 2025 · 07:00 am

Hindi biography: An excerpt from ‘Raj Kapoor: Aadhi Hakikat, Aadha Fasana,’ by Prahlad Agarwal

Prahlad Agarwal

· Mar 18, 2025 · 06:30 pm

Fateh Sahi: The 18th-century Huseypur ruler who fought a guerrilla war against East India Company

JN Sinha

· Mar 11, 2025 · 08:30 am

Army biography: The early days of ‘rifleman’ Aurangzeb of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry Regiment

Damini Punia

· Mar 04, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Who were the people and ideas that inspired revolutionaries MN Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay?

Kavitha Rao

· Mar 04, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘The Lone Wolf’: A military biography of grit and fortitude during India’s 1971 war with Pakistan

Swati Rai

· Mar 02, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Golwalkar’: MS Golwalkar’s single-minded pursuit of a Hindu Rashtra and the forces that aided him

Shakir Mir

· Feb 23, 2025 · 07:30 am

Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Anna Bhau Sathe’, by Vishwas Patil

Vishwas Patil Suresh Maheshwari

· Dec 10, 2024 · 05:30 pm

From the biography: Why particle physicist Ashutosh Kotwal took up a summer job at IBM as a student

Manik Kotwal Jerry Pinto

· Dec 02, 2024 · 08:30 am

Hindi biography: Excerpt from ‘Karpoori Thakur: Jannayak Se Bharat Ratn Tak’, by Harinarayan Thakur

Harinarayan Thakur

· Nov 29, 2024 · 05:30 pm

From the biography: When DLF CEO KP Singh fell out of favour with an important minister

KP Singh Aparna Jain

· Nov 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Biography: Ayyappa Paniker left an indelible mark on academia, Malayalam literature, and his mentees

Priyadas G Mangalath Radhika P Menon

· Nov 21, 2024 · 08:30 am

NIF Prize-winner ‘A Part Apart’: A milestone on publisher Navayana’s 21-year journey with Ambedkar

Alex George Anand

· Nov 16, 2024 · 08:30 am