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Book Reviews

Salman Rushdie Comes Home

S Prasannarajan

Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East

Victory City
Salman Rushdie
Queersapien /
Queersapien
Sharif D Rangnekar
The Right to Love

Chronicling the queer experience in India

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

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