From the April 2017 Issue Growing Pains Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India By Adam Roberts LR
From the March 2014 Issue Subcontinental Drifts Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day By John Keay LR
From the June 2011 Issue ‘The Collateral Damage of Progress’ Makers of Modern India By Ramachandra Guha The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India By Siddhartha Deb LR
From the April 2012 Issue Hostages to Fortune The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began By Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark LR
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