From books on pioneering Indian anthropologists, the history of tourism and India’s video cultures of the pre-digital era to ones that broaden the contemporary reader’s understanding of the Manusmriti, millennials and the middle class, there were lots of exciting reads this year. Shahnaz Habib’s ‘Airplane Mode’ touches... read full story
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