Saikat Niyogi

Chittaranjan Das' first disagreement with Gandhi occurred over the quality of the Government of India Act 1919

Mahatma Gandhi's patient battle with General JC Smuts, the colonial secretary of Transvaal in 1907, helped pass the Indians' Relief Bill in 1914. This was a major triumph for Indians living in a land full of racial overtones

Spanning 73 years, a survey of 12 murders splits open the depraved criminal mind. They show, too, the police’s skill in proving the crimes beyond doubt.

Ashis Ray dismantles the ‘mystery’ of Netaji’s death through an intense scrutiny of evidence. The exiled status of his remains is the real mystery.

Hermetically sealed disciplinary rigour is passe, says this book. Liberal arts-­science college education has to embrace other fields, while tending to its roots.

Within its slim girth, Manu Joseph’s new novel manages a bilious survey of things held dear in India, including bearded overlords and an ageing crime

English fiction makes a rare rendezvous with the eastern front in WWII. This journey through a corner of occupied Ukraine is a harrowing one.

Nadeem Aslam’s novelistic Lahore bristles with rage, hatred and a demonic energy, taking a magnifying glass to Pakistan’s faultlines

These tales, set in small-town Assam, speak of torments and desires, and are soaked in music

Exactly a hundred years ago, the Great War was in full blast. The shock waves it set off still influence ‘modern’ sensibility.

'A typical Grimshaw scene is often a leafy, lonely lane skirted by a walled stretch, revealing a brooding mansion beyond, and all of it bathed in an ethereal light'