Marine Drive, Mumbai

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How Mumbai is wresting land from the ocean, and why it's bad news

A doctor examines patients at a government health facility (Photo: Getty Images)

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Book Extract: Why poor health hounds the poor

Rajiv Gandhi with Mani Shankar Aiyar

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Book Extract: Mangling meaning and intent

The Darjeeling Himalayan toy train (Photo: Getty Images)

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Book Extract: The making of a nation

Actor Naseeruddin Shah (Photo: National Herald Archives)

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I will always call a spade a spade: Naseeruddin Shah

Vallabhbhai Patel (right) with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru

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Misappropriated and misunderstood: The life of Sardar Patel

People migrate after the Partition of India, 1947

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Book Extract: 15 August - A day to never forget

Girls in purdah (Photo: Getty Images)

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Book Extract: The freedom that isn’t hers

The remains of Nalanda Mahavihara in present-day Bihar (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Book Extract: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of India

Several areas of Bengaluru were flooded after torrential rains pounded the city in September 2022 (Photo: Getty Images)

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Book Extract: Rescuing our endangered landscapes

The book cover

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Book Extract: Nowhere to call home

The Central Hall in the old parliament building was the space where MPs cuting across party lines and ideologies mingled and caught up for gupshup (Photo: Getty Images)

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Book Extract: An Ode to Parliament

(Left) T.N. Seshan in 1994; (right) the book cover

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Book Extract: ‘I had a job to do’