Book Reviews

The Shadow of Partition

Ullekh NP

Tracing the evolution of Muslim politics in north India

Claiming Citizenship and Nation: Muslim Politics and State Building in North India, 1947–1986

Aishwarya Pandit

Jezebel

KR Meera | Translated into English by Abhirami Girija Sriram and KS Bijukumar

KR Meera: The Rebel’s Credo

Aditya Mani Jha

KR Meera’s latest novel blends mythology and history. The Malayalam author tells Aditya Mani Jha about creating strong women characters and the lure of the Bible

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women

Introduction by Lyse Doucet

A Home in Memory

Madhulika Liddle

Eighteen women writers imagine Afghanistan of the moment

Why Do You Fear My Ways So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison

GN Saibaba

No Sky Above

Zakia Soman

A wheelchair-bound prisoner’s appeal to the state and to humanity

Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery

Edited by BlueKraft Digital Foundation

The Iron Will

Rajeev Deshpande

How Narendra Modi strengthened India’s defence

Bitter Wash Road

Garry Disher

Spot the Killer

Shylashri Shankar

An eclectic crop of detectives in our midst—a constable in a backwater town; an inspector examining deleted audio files; a woman detective in 1920s Bangalore; and a middle-aged bachelor-priest