The New India Foundation has announced the longlist for the fifth edition of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, recognising and celebrating excellence in non-fiction writings on modern and contemporary India. Named after one of India’s foremost nation-builders, the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize celebrates the finest non-fiction literature on modern and contemporary India published in the previous calendar year by writers of all nationalities.
The list includes 10 books on biography, art history, environment and industry, and even includes books that represent the ways in which India has come to be shaped in the 75th year of independence.
SEVENTY-FIVE years after Independence is a good time to assess our political vocabularies. Take the concept of swaraj. It has become an integral part of our political lexicon, we have a political party named Swaraj, the Chief Minister of Delhi has written a book titled Swaraj, and recently BJP leade