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Goan bakers brought bread to Mumbai. Then passed the mantle to Iranians

Pronoti Datta -
In her book, 'In the Beginning There Was Bombay Duck', Pronoti Datta offers a colourful, cosmopolitan food history of Mumbai.
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What Mughal and British rule did to India’s forests

Yogesh Chandra -
In 'An Officer and a Tiger', Yogesh Chandra offers a sensory portrait of the Terai jungles in their full, untamed splendour.
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My married life with Rajendra Yadav began with a bizarre rupture: Mannu Bhandari

Mannu Bhandari -
In 'This Too Is a Story', trailblazing Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari lays bare the faultlines of her controversial marriage to Rajendra Yadav.
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Where Prayagraj got its name—Brahma’s first sacrifice after creating the world

Vipul B Varshney -
In 'Temples of Awadh', Vipul B Varshney documents over 150 temples, ghats, and sarovars in the Awadh region.
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First review of Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali—moment for India to shake the world awake

Shoubhik -
'The Bengal Reader', an anthology edited and translated by Arunava Sinha, reflects the literary life of Bengal across two centuries.
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17th-century India was an Eldorado for the French—Taj Mahal, jewel mines, unimaginable wealth

Robert Ivermee -
In 'Glorious Failure', Robert Ivermee reveals how France's Indian empire relied on war-making, conquest, regime change, and slavery.
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The sari is key to my romance with my husband Hardeep Singh Puri

Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri -
In 'The Sari Eternal', Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri combines personal recollections and historical perspectives to offer a tribute to the garment.
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Marxist painter Frida Kahlo had a deep interest in Hindu spirituality, read Upanishads

Indranil Chakravarty -
In 'The Tree Within', Indranil Chakravarty offers the story of Octavio Paz’s passionate love-affair with India, where he served as Mexico’s ambassador in the 1960s.
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Keeladi excavation—Tamil Nadu’s ancient city and a long trail of clues

Sowmiya Ashok -
In 'The Dig', Sowmiya Ashok traces the serendipitous discovery of the ancient settlement at Keeladi and the political storm it set off.
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Yash Chopra told me I was the quintessential Yash Raj heroine: Shalini Passi

Shalini Passi -
In her book, 'The Art of Being Fabulous', Shalini Passi blends style and philosophy to offer 10 rules for living on one's own terms.
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That one skincare science rule most people get wrong—pH

Deepali Bhardwaj -
The pH scale runs from zero (very acidic) to 14 (very alkaline), with seven being neutral. Your skin isn’t neutral. Healthy skin sits in a mildly acidic range of 4.5-5.5.

Red bricks from demolished homes and the burden of identity at India Art Fair

Reconciling religion and science is the only way to find peace and happiness: Zakir Husain

Economy

The agri balancing act: Farms, dairy shielded in US deal but doors open to nuts, animal feed imports

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal says farmers' interests safeguarded as Trump administration drops levies.

Defence

Australian amphibian aircraft firm eyes Indian civil & military market, ties up with Apogee Aerospace

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Aligning with India's push to promote inter-coastal air connectivity, Apogee has ordered 15 seaplanes in a deal valued at Rs 3,500 crore.

National Interest

Dear Narendrabhai, Bangladesh polls give India space to hit reset button

Shekhar Gupta -
By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.

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