Light filters through blue tissue paper in the art room. Its walls are decorated with construction paper fish, their scales sparkling with glitter.

I never sought public office or great titles, just to make a difference for people who couldn’t speak for themselves. I learned to live frugally so I’d never sell my soul.” ...

Three books — written across three decades, from three very different vantage points — describe, more precisely than anything else in the literature, exactly what India chose not to do. And what it ...