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Book Reviews

Eco Friction

Aditya Mani Jha

Many fissures of Delhi come alive in Keshava Guha's novel

The Tiger’s Share
Keshava Guha
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories /
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Banu Mushtaq | Translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
Feminist Fire

Banu Mushtaq’s stories that are both folkloric and contemporary make it to the International Booker Prize shortlist

Tales from Qabristan  /
Tales from Qabristan
Sabin Iqbal
A Place Called Grief

A boy navigates love, life and death in a Kerala village

Unknown City /
Unknown City
Amitabha Bagchi
The Inward Gaze

Amitabha Bagchi’s new novel is a meditation on relationships

Learning from Silence /
Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer
‘The best of us resides in our silent self,’ says Pico Iyer

The rewards of silence and solitude are more than personal. Pico Iyer discusses his new book with

The Search for India’s Rarest Birds /
The Search for India’s Rarest Birds
Edited by Shashank Dalvi and Anita Mani
Flights of Fancy

On the trail of the subcontinent’s most enigmatic birds

Great Eastern Hotel /
Great Eastern Hotel
Ruchir Joshi
Return to Calcutta

Ruchir Joshi’s new novel is about an epic city teeming with stories

Rain Dogs /
Rain Dogs
Rohit Chawla
How Easy Love Can Be

Aground in the pandemic on the monsoon beaches of Goa, award-winning photographer Rohit Chawla had hislife restored in the company of stray dogs hungry and forgotten in the absence of humans

Vishwa Shastra: India and the World /
Vishwa Shastra: India and the World
Dhruva Jaishankar
The New Change Agent

Dhruva Jaishankar maps the evolution of India’s foreign policy

Bharata Before the British and Other Essays: Towards a New Indology  /
Bharata Before the British and Other Essays: Towards a New Indology
Shonaleeka Kaul
The Right Way to Revise History

A new collection of essays explores recent strides in decolonising the study of India’s past while freeing it of ideological bias

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