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Book Reviews

Power Portraits

Ullekh NP

Neerja Chowdhury reveals the inner workings of six Indian prime ministers

How Prime Ministers Decide
Neerja Chowdhury
The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao /
The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao
Lindsay Pereira
Mayhem in the Metropolis

An elegy to a Mumbai destroyed by greed and cynicism

Centres of Power: My Years In the Prime Minister’s Office and Security Council /
Centres of Power: My Years In the Prime Minister’s Office and Security Council
Chinmaya R Gharekhan
Reminiscences of a Bureaucrat

An officer under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi shares an insider account

Tree & Serpent /
Tree & Serpent
John Guy
The Buddha at Home

John Guy brings together more than 125 objects about the origins of Buddhism in his new book and a recent exhibition

The Indians: Histories of a Civilisation /
The Indians: Histories of a Civilisation
Edited by GN Devy, Tony Joseph and Ravi Korisettar
History as Palimpsest

Over one hundred scholars map the origins and evolution of India

Assassin /
Assassin
KR Meera | Translated from Malayalam by J Devika
KR Meera: Write and Subvert

KR Meera’s new novel opens with an attempted murder. The author speaks about the trigger of the plot, the pains of writing and the importance of truth telling

Water in a Broken Pot: A Memoir /
Water in a Broken Pot: A Memoir
Yogesh Maitreya
Finding Home

The memoir of a Dalit writer on alienation, deprivation and reconciliation

Quarterlife /
Quarterlife
Devika Rege
Matters of the Mind

The novel as a character study of the country

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