Amazing pictures and text that reveals everything you wanted to know about Hindu sadhus but didn't dare ask.

Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi's contribution to the idea-of-India genre, describes how MK Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, JL Nehru and BR Ambedkar imagined the moral-political motives of independent India.

If one could pile up all the clichés used to describe a bestseller, Jeffrey Archer's Best Kept Secret does not veer off the list as he spins the yarn with all the right and usual dosage of drama, danger and intrigue.

The stories deal with gender abuse that are apparent and masked - from agonising realities women are subjected to every day to the macabre.

The book talks about the contribution of youth in the past and how it can once again take the centre stage to help the country move forward.

A picture is worth a 1000 words they say and Steve Raymer's photographs in Redeeming Calcutta, that display the moods of the City of Joy, is worth many thousands.

Bal Thackeray's story and the Sena's. Ranjitt C Khomne writes.

If you have ever wondered why anyone chooses to become a Naxalite, journalist Shubhranshu Choudhary's book provides all the reasons. Shriya Mohan writes.

MV Ramana deserves thanks for sequentially and dispassionately bringing together history and information on power reactors, uranium, plutonium, heavy water, economics, and safety over 5 decades of India's nuclear power development in a 295-page narrative. Sankar Ray writes.

Navtej Sarna's latest work, a collection of short stories set in Moscow, Geneva, Paris and India, features a motley group that includes strong women, bureaucrats, and somewhat seedy characters too. Rachna Joshi writes.

The memoirs and poems of Lal Singh Dil are a tapestry of textures and tones that highlight his indomitable spirit. Pankaj Vohra writes.

You cannot shun war and run away from the death and destruction that follows you. You cannot dodge the fear of terrorism, bomb blasts or a fidayeen. You cannot shut yourself to the latest round of intifada or Kani Jung, threatening to suck life out of your hinges.

You’ve had a brief idea about them, may be heard about their stories while growing up or might have watched them in brief and abridged versions on screen in TV adaptations.

Amit Chaudhuri’s new book is a perceptive, beautifully written and often wry portrait of Calcutta/ Kolkata, a book that deals with, among other things, the dichotomies between Calcutta and Kolkata, the pastness of the city’s past as well as its presence in the present, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.