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Book Reviews

A Serial Survivor

Ullekh NP

The trials and triumphs of Ram Vilas Paswan

To Break and to Branch: Six Essays on Gieve Patel  /
To Break and to Branch: Six Essays on Gieve Patel
Ranjit Hoskote
The Gifts of Gieve

A portrait of Gieve Patel as an interpreter of the modern metropolis

City on Fire:  A Boyhood in Aligarh /
City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh
Zeyad Masroor Khan
Aligarh Almanac

A coming-of-age memoir about grief and hope

Swallowing the Sun /
Swallowing the Sun
Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri
The Passage of India

Freedom is a feminist struggle in Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri’s debut novel

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Art of Freedom /
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Art of Freedom
Nico Slate
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Different Feminist

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s life reflects the story of modern India

Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry /
Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
Arundhathi Subramaniam
The Brazen and the Devout

Arundhathi Subramaniam maps the spiritual poetry movement in India

The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories /
The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories
Subimal Misra | Translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy
Subversive Flair

The deceptive straightforwardness of Subimal Misra’s short stories

Kashi: The Abode of Shiva /
Kashi: The Abode of Shiva
Vijay Rana
Shiva’s Sanctuary

A new book offers a rare glimpse of Banaras and the temple at the heart of the holy city

Until August /
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
Márquez’s Love and Other Demons

Until August shows why the afterlife of writers is larger than what we read on the pages

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