I did not expect this book to feel so procedural. I thought it would read like a polemic. It doesn’t. It reads like someone building a legal case file. Page after page of quotations. Extracts from speeches. Minutes from meetings. British archival correspondence. Constituent Assembly debates. What unsettled me most is not what Shourie says — it’s how often he steps aside and lets Ambedkar speak in long stretches, unedited. That is where the discomfort begins. The popular narrative I grew up...

Many Shades of Saffron: Decoding 100 Years of RSS Author: Chandrachur Ghose Genre: History Published by Rupa Publications Pages: 404 MRP: Rs. 795/- Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/48LiEnF   Thank you Rupa Publications for a Review Copy of the book. Chandrachur Ghose’s Many Shades of Saffron  embarks on an ambitious chronicle of India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from its 1925 founding to the present. The book situates the Sangh in the context of 20th-century Indian politics and society,...

Prateek Sharma’s literary journey is, in many ways, a map of a mind growing through solitude, self-interrogation, emotional upheaval, and spiritual softening. With  Melange , his debut work, Sharma introduced himself as a poet of introspection, someone who writes not to decorate emotion, but to dismantle it. Years later,  Reflections , his third book, reveals the evolution of that same voice: calmer, more distilled, and more willing to embrace vulnerability without dramatizing it. Together,...