Book Review – Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story by Kishwar Desai

Jallianwala Bagh 1919 book review (Photograph: Zeutschel Omniscan 11/Nehru Memorial Museum) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 remains one of the bloodiest and most haunting chapters of India’s freedom struggle. Today more than a century later, the horror of that day still feels difficult to…

India’s Greatest Bookshops, By The Measures That Are Truly Indian

The Four Things That Make A Bookshop Truly Great In India (Picture Credit – Reddit/Instagram) Shortly after dawn on Kolkata’s College Street, a fourth-generation bookseller named Arabinda Das Gupta swings a brass censer through the aisles of a shop his family has kept for over…