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Book Reviews

How Easy Love Can Be

Rohit Chawla

Aground in the pandemic on the monsoon beaches of Goa, award-winning photographer Rohit Chawla had hislife restored in the company of stray dogs hungry and forgotten in the absence of humans

Rain Dogs
Rohit Chawla
Vishwa Shastra: India and the World /
Vishwa Shastra: India and the World
Dhruva Jaishankar
The New Change Agent

Dhruva Jaishankar maps the evolution of India’s foreign policy

Bharata Before the British and Other Essays: Towards a New Indology  /
Bharata Before the British and Other Essays: Towards a New Indology
Shonaleeka Kaul
The Right Way to Revise History

A new collection of essays explores recent strides in decolonising the study of India’s past while freeing it of ideological bias

100 Indian Stories: A Feast Of Remarkable Short Fiction From The 19Th, 20Th and 21St Centuries  /
100 Indian Stories: A Feast Of Remarkable Short Fiction From The 19Th, 20Th and 21St Centuries
Various authors | edited by AJ Thomas
Masters at Work

An anthology that showcases the art and range of the Indian short story

Izmirli: My Last Love /
Izmirli: My Last Love
Firat Sunel |Translated by Feyza Howell
An Istanbul Odyssey

Turkish Ambassador Firat Sunel’s newly translated novel is a psychological thriller

Rising Sons /
Rising Sons
Kavery Nambisan
Human Bonds

Kavery Nambisan’s eighth novel, set in rural Karnataka one hundred years ago, tells of status and identity, loss and pursuit

No Place to Call My Own  /
No Place to Call My Own
Alina Gufran
Longing and Ruin

A woman’s fraught journey towards self-discovery

Reimagining Jammu and Kashmir: A Pictorial Journey /
Reimagining Jammu and Kashmir: A Pictorial Journey
Ashish Sharma
Home Lost and Found

Mapping a historic transition in Kashmir which embraces the new while retaining the ancient

Soumitra Chatterjee and His World /
Soumitra Chatterjee and His World
Sanghamitra Chakraborty
Bengal’s Leading Man

Why Satyajit Ray’s favourite actor is special

Wild Fictions /
Wild Fictions
Amitav Ghosh
‘Fiction and Non-Fiction Are Two Sides of the Same Coin,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh’s recent anthology of essays spotlights his three main themes—migration, environment and history. A conversation with the author

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