Book Reviews

The War of Dharma

Gautam Chikermane

Amish’s fourth book in the Ram Chandra series takes contemporary questions to the ancient battlefields

War of Lanka: Ram Chandra Series Book 4

Amish

Zikr: In the Light and Shade of Time

Muzaffar Ali

Muzaffar Ali: The Aesthete

Kaveree Bamzai

Muzaffar Ali has created beauty on screen, on canvas, and in couture. He talks about his autobiography in a conversation with Open

A Beautiful Decay

Karan Madhok

Lands without Justice

Sampad Patnaik

A novel built on the history of hate

In Free Fall: My Experiments With Living

Mallika Sarabhai

Balancing Acts

Vivek Menezes

A dancer’s search for health and happiness

Tuticorin: Adventures in Tamil Nadu’s Crime Capital

V Sudarshan

Khaki Capers

Aditya Mani Jha

The adventures of an honest cop in small-town India

Hyderabad: Book 2 of the Partition Trilogy

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Delhi to Hyderabad

Madhulika Liddle

A historical novel traces how the nizam’s state acceded to India

Mumbai: A City Through Objects: 101 Stories from the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Tasneem Zakaria Mehta

An Objective Portrait of Mumbai

Shaikh Ayaz

Tasneem Zakaria Mehta tells the cultural history of the city through 101 stories from the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum. The author talks about her aesthetic obsession in a conversation Open

Memsahibs: British Women In Colonial India

Ipshita Nath

A Female Gaze

Fehmida Zakeer

Englishwomen who straddled two worlds

Everything the Light Touches

Janice Pariat

A Different Way of Seeing

Urvashi Bahuguna

Janice Pariat’s new novel motivates us to question our turbulent relationship with the planet

Liberation Day

George Saunders

‘Intuition is very smart, smarter than analyses or mere intellect,’ says George Saunders

Nandini Nair

George Saunders has a cult status in contemporary fiction. In his new short story collection, the American author explores power and ethics, love and morality. He speaks to Open about creating characters with tenderness