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The Tamil Mind
N Kalyan Raman Tamil Characters: Personalities, Politics, Culture by AR Venkatachalapthy, Pan Macmillan India, 2018 We have existed as a...
Jun 18, 20233 min read
Can Scientists Be Religious?
N Kalyan Raman Science and Religion in India: Beyond Enchantment, Renny Thomas, Routledge, 2022 While religion has had, and continues to...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
Palm Tree Tappers to Sickle Makers
N Kalyan Raman Nine Rupees an Hour: Disappearing Livelihoods of Tamil Nadu, Aparna Karthikeyan, Context, Westland Books, 2019 A world...
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A City Has Many Names
N Kalyan Raman Madras, Chennai and the Self: Conversations with the City by Tulsi Badrinath, Pan Macmillan, 2015 Rapid and uncontrolled...
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The Last Scriptwriter: An empathetic portrait of Karunanidhi
N Kalyan Raman Karunanidhi: The Definitive Biography by Vaasanthi, Juggernaut Books, 2020 In her recent biography of Muthuvel...
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The Last Scriptwriter
N Kalyan Raman Karunanidhi: A Life in Politics by Sandhya Ravishankar, HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2018 Though the Dravidian movement is...
Jun 18, 20234 min read
The Man behind the Icon: AK Ramanujan’s Diaries
N Kalyan Raman Journeys: A Poet’s Diary (Eds) Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodriguez, Penguin Random House India, 2018 “The value of...
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In Search of New Frontiers: The brains and blood behind ISRO
N Kalyan Raman Ever Upwards: ISRO In Images VP Balagangadharan, PV Manoranjan Rao, BN Suresh, Orient Blackswan, 2019 It was only in the...
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Smell the Kapi
N Kalyan Raman Degree Coffee by the Yard: A Short Biography of Madras by Nirmala Lakshman, Aleph Book Company, 2013 The book under...
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How do state governments sustain the illusion of governance even when they fail their people?
N Kalyan Raman Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope by M. Rajshekhar, Westland Books, New Delhi, 2021 With...
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Discovered in translation
N Kalyan Raman Culture, Language & Identity: English-Tamil in Colonial India 1750-1900 CE Language, Culture & Power: English-Tamil in...
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The Illustrious Illustrator
N Kalyan Raman Sketches: The Memoir of an Artist KM Vasudevan Namboodiri | Translated by Gita Krishnankutty, Penguin Books India, 2019...
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