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Book Reviews

Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand /
Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
Nayanjot Lahiri
On the Ashoka Trail

Nayanjot Lahiri travels through Asia to explore the different images of the Mauryan emperor. The author in conversation with Open

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise /
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
Pico Iyer
Enchantments of Memory

Kashmir is a parable about how paradise becomes something different to every neighbour

Chechnya to Ukraine /
Chechnya to Ukraine
Mark Galeotti
The End of Putin’s Dream?

Why Russia is not a 21st century Sparta

Tejo Tungabhadra: Tributaries of Time /
Tejo Tungabhadra: Tributaries of Time
Vasudhendra | Translated by Maithreyi Karnoor
A Bridge across Rivers

Love and war in Portugal and India in the 16th century

The Chipko Movement: A People’s History /
The Chipko Movement: A People’s History
Shekhar Pathak | translated by Manisha Chaudhry
‘Misrepresentations Damaged the Cause to Some Extent’

Shekhar Pathak’s book on the Chipko movement wins the Kamladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Book Prize. The author in conversation with Open

Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar  /
Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar
Savita Ambedkar | Translated by Nadeem Khan
A Wife’s Gaze

An intimate portrait of Ambedkar

Independence /
Independence
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Nationhood and Sisterhood

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new novel traces freedom through a family saga

The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises /
The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises
Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka: We’ve lived through war, but the great thing is there’s still hope

Shehan Karunatilaka is out with a collection of short stories, soon after his Booker win. The Sri Lankan author in conversation with Open

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