Book Reviews

Lives Less Lived

Karthik Keramalu

A caste study from a village in Gujarat

Vultures

Dalpat Chauhan | Translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar

The Penguin Book of Indian Poets

Edited by Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil and Ranjit Hoskote on Indian Poetry

Nandini Nair

‘There is an urgency and commitment in the voices of the poets in this book.’ A conversation between poets Jeet Thayil and Ranjit Hoskote about an anthology of modern Indian poetry edited by the former

Unmasking Indian Secularism: Why We Need a New Hindu-Muslim Deal

Hasan Suroor

It’s Time for a New Hindu-Muslim Deal

Hasan Suroor

...because Indian secularism was doomed to fail

The Eastern Gate: War and Peace in Nagaland, Manipur and India’s Far East

Sudeep Chakravarti

Conflict and Concord

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Despatches from a fractured land

Machinehood

SB Divya

The Maximalist

Aditya Mani Jha

SB Divya’s science-fiction novel, set in 2095, pits humans against Artificial Intelligence. The author in conversation with Aditya Mani Jha

Akbar of Hindustan

Parvati Sharma

Akbarnama: Peace with All

Parvati Sharma

The Akbarnama continues to be relevant not because it valorises one man but rather because it echoes the tenet of unity in diversity

Thumb Printed: Champaran Indigo Peasants Speak to Gandhi

Edited by Shahid Amin, Tridip Suhrud and Megha Todi

Gandhi in Champaran

Shahid Amin

Testimonies of the indigo peasants played a pivotal role in making the Mahatma

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree | Translated by Daisy Rockwell

Thresholds of Time and Space

Arshia Sattar

A finely delineated and sharply observed story of a middle-class Delhi family during Partition, by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize. A first for a translation from India