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Using data to tell the story of India’s infrastructure issues, and the way ahead

In former Bihar DGP’s account, a solution-driven police career, eventful teaching detour

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Books

Vineet Gill’s book on Nirmal Verma is a reader’s tribute to reading

Using data to tell the story of India’s infrastructure issues, and the way ahead

In former Bihar DGP’s account, a solution-driven police career, eventful teaching detour

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Lacking a sense of the particular, Villainy is set adrift on a sea of caricatures

Nalin Mehta’s The New BJP is a work of empirical ambition

NL Interview: Amitava Kumar on fiction writing, fake news, and politics today

NL Interview: Vanita Kohli-Khandekar on the business of news media

NL Interview: Kalki Koechlin on motherhood, her new book, and why it’s not hard to offend people

NL Interview: Vivan Marwaha on millennials in India and the influence of news and media on them

Mohamed Thaver on his book ‘In Plain Sight’ and being a crime reporter

The Illuminated sets out to decode India’s political zeitgeist, ends up caricaturing it

Ashok Lavasa on his book 'An Ordinary Life' and being an election commissioner

NL Interview: Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan on alternate realities and their new book

How a private company used Punjab police as goons for hire

NL Interview: Krish Ashok on Masala Lab, food and writing about food

Gangster State offers an insider view of a party worker’s disillusionment with CPIM in Bengal

NL Interview: Abhishek Saha on his book and Assam’s NRC crisis

Is India’s power elite really who you think it is?

NL Interview: AS Bhasin on his latest book and the trials of researching the 1962 Sino-Indian War

Lacking a sense of the particular, Villainy is set adrift on a sea of caricatures

Nalin Mehta’s The New BJP is a work of empirical ambition

NL Interview: Amitava Kumar on fiction writing, fake news, and politics today

NL Interview: Vanita Kohli-Khandekar on the business of news media

NL Interview: Kalki Koechlin on motherhood, her new book, and why it’s not hard to offend people

NL Interview: Vivan Marwaha on millennials in India and the influence of news and media on them

Mohamed Thaver on his book ‘In Plain Sight’ and being a crime reporter

The Illuminated sets out to decode India’s political zeitgeist, ends up caricaturing it

Ashok Lavasa on his book 'An Ordinary Life' and being an election commissioner

NL Interview: Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan on alternate realities and their new book

How a private company used Punjab police as goons for hire

NL Interview: Krish Ashok on Masala Lab, food and writing about food

Gangster State offers an insider view of a party worker’s disillusionment with CPIM in Bengal

NL Interview: Abhishek Saha on his book and Assam’s NRC crisis

Is India’s power elite really who you think it is?

NL Interview: AS Bhasin on his latest book and the trials of researching the 1962 Sino-Indian War