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Book Reviews

The Right to Love

Chintan Girish Modi

Chronicling the queer experience in India

Queersapien
Sharif D Rangnekar
The Book of Bihari Literature /
The Book of Bihari Literature
Edited by Abhay K
Patna to Purnia

Difficult truths from Bihar concealed within acceptable homilies

The Corbett Papers: Life and Career of Jim Corbett of Kumaon /
The Corbett Papers: Life and Career of Jim Corbett of Kumaon
Edited by Akshay Shah and Stephen Alter
The Hunter’s Nature

The enduring aura of Jim Corbett

A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir /
A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir
AS Dulat
When Shadows Speak

A spymaster tells the Kashmir story through his own life

People of India: The New Indian Politics In the 21st Century /
People of India: The New Indian Politics In the 21st Century
Edited by Ravinder Kaur and Nayanika Mathur
A Lexicon for New India

Deciphering the nature of the nation

The Book of Vanish­ing Species /
The Book of Vanish­ing Species
Beatrice Forshall
‘If we give nature a chance, it can and will recover,’ says Beatrice Forshall

Beatrice Forshall’s engravings of the natural world revolve around the conservation of species. The artist-author in conversation with

Cartoos Saab: A Soldier’s Story of Resilience In Adversity  /
Cartoos Saab: A Soldier’s Story of Resilience In Adversity
Maj Gen Ian Cardozo
Never Give In

A soldier’s memoir is the story of Indian Army too

India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, 1947 to Today  /
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, 1947 to Today
Ashoka Mody
Through a Lens Darkly

Ashoka Mody’s understanding of Indian democracy is unnecessarily pessimistic

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