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

Anand Vardhan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anand Vardhan

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

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

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How a private company used Punjab police as goons for hire

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

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

Anand Vardhan

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

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

Anand Vardhan

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

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NL Interview: Kabir Bedi on his life, cinema culture, and the Beatles

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NL Interview: Devdutt Pattanaik on Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha

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JP to BJP: Santosh Singh’s book suffers from a lack of thematic coherence

Anand Vardhan

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

NL Team

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

NL Team

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

NL Team

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

NL Team

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

Anand Vardhan

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

NL Team

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

NL Team

How a private company used Punjab police as goons for hire

NL Team

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

NL Team

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

Anand Vardhan

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

NL Team

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

Anand Vardhan

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

NL Team

NL Interview: Kabir Bedi on his life, cinema culture, and the Beatles

NL Team

NL Interview: Devdutt Pattanaik on Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha

NL Team

JP to BJP: Santosh Singh’s book suffers from a lack of thematic coherence

Anand Vardhan