To Teach Women in Colonial India: New Novel By Harini Nagendra By: Harini Nagendra “I have brothers and sisters and I find that my sisters are as intelligent as my brothers.” Digitally leafing through stacks of archival documents on 20th century colonial Bangalore as part of my academic research on the city’s ecological history, this sentence struck me with force.…
The Best Books to Read While Social Distancing, According to Authors In the era of social distancing, many of us have found our world shrunk down to the size of our home. Given the circumstances, there’s never been a better, or more urgent,time to pick up a book. Within its pages, you can slip into another reality. For the price of a book, you…
You might think the details of your baby’s everyday life would make for a boring book. You’d be very, very wrong! Every baby needs books that let him look at images of other babies, and shows him how they go through their days. These picks are as dependable as they are adorable. I might even call them foolproof, because they’re…