How and when did this book come about? The process begain in 2012, when I started working as an independent journalist, and was reporting on sexual violence. What was missing in my own reportage as ...

Sarees clogged the drains in Lohta, a small town known for its weavers in Banaras, during the bloody riots across India after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in ...

If one were to be asked why one reads, chances are one would say it’s the grip of the story or the beauty of the craft. But every once in a while, one stumbles upon a book that fundamentally reorients ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dilli bahot behudi (“Delhi is very ill-mannered”), a rickshaw driver tells the protagonist of this book shortly ...

ASP Syeda Shehrbano Naqvi is also being praised online for her bravery. A Pakistani woman police officer is earning praises for her swift action to diffuse a potentially violent situation in Lahore.

The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian, is the nonfiction debut of Neha Dixit, an investigative journalist based in New Delhi. It juxtaposes the life of Syeda, a Muslim migrant ...

It is difficult to slot 81-year-old Syeda Saiyidain Hameed in any one box. A well-known Delhi figure, she wears many hats — writer, poet, human rights activist, champion of women’s empowerment and, ...