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Kanhoji Angre: How A Maratha Grand Admiral Defeated The European Naval Powers

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1yr Books
Pratish Khedekar -Wikimedia Commons

‘India’s Bravehearts’: When Life On The LoC Is Really Not In Control

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3yr Books
Cover of the book India's Bravehearts by Lt Gen Satish Dua (Retd)

The Kargil Girl: Gunjan Saxena’s Own Account Of What Really Happened At The Udhampur Base

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3yr Books
Cover of the book The KARGIL GIRL (left) and retired IAF pilot Gunjan Saxena (right). 

Book Excerpt: What Happened In The Streets And At Homes When Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan Was Telecast First

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4yr Books
Arun Govil as Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita

When Indira Gandhi Was More Scared Of Jayaprakash Narayan Dying Than Him Being Alive

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4yr Books
Jayaprakash Narayan  

What No One Says About Dealing With Depression 

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4yr Books
Book cover 

How A DMK Minister Frustrated Vikram Sarabhai’s Plans For A Rocket Launch Pad In Tamil Nadu

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4yr Books
The Chandrayaan 2 atop the GSLV-MKIII launch vehicle. (pic via Twitter)

How Narasimha Rao Was Humiliated In Death

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6yr Books
Narasimha Rao and Sonia Gandhi

Shivaji Raje And Shiva, The Barber

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Shivaji

Why ‘Nudging’ People Into Making Good Choices Is Simple And Yet So Effective

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6yr Books
Innovation in food display can help people make healthy choices. (Wikimedia Commons)

Engineering Unlikely Victories: What Is Behind BJP’s Win In Uttar Pradesh

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Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh state Yogi Adityanath (C), Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and new deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya (L)(Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

Do We Really Understand China?

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6yr World
Paramilitary policeman does a national flag rising ceremony to mark the New Year before thousands of people climb the Great Wall on January 1, 2009 in Beijing, China. (Guang Niu/Getty Images)

Decoding ‘Pink’: Is It Preachy For A Man To Talk About Women’s Rights?

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6yr Ideas
Cover of Gautam Chintamani’s book <i>Pink: The Inside Story</i>

From Y V Reddy’s Book: When NTR Made An Unexpected And Dramatic Speech

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Dr Y V Reddy (Vikas Khot/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

What It’s Like To Be At The Helm Of A Central Bank When The Going Is Anything But Great

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Cover of the book <i>I Do What I Do</i> by Raghuram G Rajan

Why India’s Black Economy Continues To Thrive

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Currency Notes (Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

A Biography of Bengaluru – From Kempe Gowda’s Dream City To Silicon Valley Of India And Beyond

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6yr Books
Bengaluru Metro One Evening View (Augustus Binu/www.dreamsparrow.net)

Unconventional And Unrequited, The Love Story Of Mr And Mrs Jinnah

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6yr Ideas
Mrs and Mr Jinnah

How Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Cracked The FMCG Supply Chain To Dominate The Market

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Baba Ramdev with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Nehru’s Perfidy Over Tibet In 1950

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6yr World
Nehru and Dalai Lama (Central Press/Getty Images)

Modi, Nilekani And Aadhaar

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Nandan Nilekani (www.narendramodi.in)

Emergency: When Power Wreaked Havoc And How 

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Indira Gandhi with son Sanjay Gandhi (Keystone/Getty Images)

Diving Into The Lives Of The Urban Poor

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Urban youth (Natasha Hemrajani /Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Revisiting Awadh, One Cultural Trait At A Time

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Dastangoi, the art of Urdu storytelling ( Syed sahil agha/Wiki Commons)

On Modi And His Mammoth Move Of Demonetisation

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6yr Books
BJP supporters (Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

India’s Vanishing Wildlife - Balance Between Conservation And Development Beyond Us?

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Elephants strolling in Dandeli (sangramparida02@gmail.com/Wiki Commons)

When Jyoti Basu, Of All People, Extended Support For Liberalisation Of Coal Sector

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Jyoti Basu, former Indian politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and chief minister of the state from 1977 to 2000. (Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons)

Tale Of The Indian Railways: How Locomotives Have Become Anonymous

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The restored Fairy Queen

How Our Sense Of Hierarchy Extends Even To Languages

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Book cover of <i>The Lottery of Birth: On Inherited Social Inequalities</i>

Mayuresh Didolkar’s ‘The Dark Road’ Is A Tale Of Passion, Power And Politics

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6yr Books
Mayuresh Didolkar’s ‘The Dark Road’

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