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Book Reviews

Spirit of the Game

Boria Majumdar

Under Abhinav Bindra’s watchful eye the Olympic Values Education Programme is changing the lives of economically disadvantaged schoolchildren in Odisha

Odisha and Sports: A Story of Hope and Glory
Boria Majumdar and R Vineel Krishna
The Patient In Bed Number 12 /
The Patient In Bed Number 12
Raj Kamal Jha
Writing in the Dark

Raj Kamal Jha’s fiction transforms the news from something that fades into the past into a hologram of the present

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir /
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
Ramachandra Guha
Editor’s Choice

The author met Rukun Advani at a wedding. And that changed his career as an author. An excerpt from his memoir

Mansions of the Moon /
Mansions of the Moon
Shyam Selvadurai
Star-crossed Lovers

Reimagining the early life and relationship of Siddhartha Gautama and Yasodhara

The Gallery /
The Gallery
Manju Kapur
Life As a Gallery

Manju Kapur’s seventh novel reevaluates marriage and class, power and art in Delhi. The author in conversation with

An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy /
An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Acrobat and the Safety Net

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells why her book on the early life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy is a rare love story

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses /
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Aarathi Prasad
Cocooned in Time

A cultural and biological history of silk

The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told /
The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by AJ Thomas
Metaphorical Malayalee

A portrait of Kerala in fifty stories

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