Category: Features

In Nainital: Through Memory, Stories & History, Janhavi Prasada traces the town’s layered history, beauty, and the quiet intimacy of its people and places. Offering glimpses of life around the shimmering lake, its colonial legacies, indigenous foods and trails deep into the Deodar forests – complemented by fellow Nainital native Digvijay Singh’s evocative illustrations, this ode to the town paints a portrait of a place

A treasury of cartographic splendour, India Through Iconic Maps presents over 250 exquisite maps – many never before published – spanning the subcontinent’s rich history from ancient cosmographies to the watershed 1947 Partition, where every map is a story of power, place, and imagination. With museum-quality reproductions and stunning design, this is a collector’s edition that celebrates the art and power of maps like never

From Operation Blue Star to Article 370, from Kabul to Kashmir, Harinder Baweja has witnessed it all. Her new memoir, They Will Shoot You, Madam’: My Life Through Conflict, takes you inside 40 years of India’s biggest conflicts and their profound human impact. It is not just a memoir. It is the untold story of conflict, courage, and the human cost of politics. Harinder has

Maj Gen Lakhwinder Singh is a third-generation army officer and joined the National Defence Academy in 1964. He was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery in December 1967. With Artillery’s Thunder: The Untold Kargil Story, he offers a gripping account of how India’s mighty Bofors FH-77B howitzers turned the tide of Operation Vijay. A powerful blend of battlefield heroism and present-day urgency, this is a

Manuel Bauer has been documenting the life of the 14th Dalai Lama since 1990, and was the only photographer to date to accompany Tibetans on their perilous escape across the Himalayas in 1995. With Dalai Lama: Photographs by Manuel Bauer 1990–2024, the Swiss photographer captures His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s presence in atmospheric images taken on his numerous trips abroad, at his many public

Blending personal memories with authentic recipes, Pernia Qureshi in her debut cookbook Ammi’s Kitchen: Heirloom Recipes from Rampur brings a heartfelt celebration of family, culture and the timeless art of home-cooked meals. We recently conducted a candid interview with her. 1. Your favourite cookbooks?None, I don’t cook. I only eat. I was obsessed with Nigella’s show because she made everything look so sinfully delicious. Now I

In India In A Bowl: Complete Indian Meals, The Easy Away, award-winning chef and restaurateur Megha Kohli takes the principles of the traditional Indian meal and applies it to the popular ‘one bowl meal’ concept – with recipes that are not only easy to follow but are also well thought out, balanced and filling. Here is a candid interview that we recently carried out with

A fourth-generation member of the armed forces, Geetika Lidder is a sapper’s daughter and an infantry officer’s wife who has welcomed life with open arms and takes in her stride the highs and lows it serves her. She is now the Vice Principal of the Junior School. She stays in Delhi with her daughter Aashna. Part love story, tribute and family history, with I Am

Géraldine Lenain is an art historian with over twenty years of experience as a specialist in Asian arts. Her book The Last Maharaja of Indore, Yeshwant Rao Holkar II’s first major biography, reads like a journey into the heart of the roaring 1920s and a passage through India on the path to independence, revealing the profound complexities of a life marked by both brilliance and

Sayali Goyal’s Everyday Indian Aesthetic showcases various aspects of Indian design, art, architecture, fashion, and crafts, highlighting the unique and intricate details that define the Indian aesthetic through her eyes, while leaving space for your own interpretation. The book is a collection of her travels across India over eight years, showcasing everyday design elements that reflect Indian sensibilities in materials, colours, architecture, interiors, typography, and