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Book Reviews

‘Mindwandering Is Where Creative Thinking Happens’

Tasneem Pocketwala

Cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar’s new book tells us to think broader to feel better. The author in conversation with Tasneem Pocketwala

To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism  /
To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism
Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane
Power of the People

Cracks in social foundations can break up democracies

Indian Innovation Not Jugaad: 100 Ideas that Transformed India  /
Indian Innovation Not Jugaad: 100 Ideas that Transformed India
Dinesh C Sharma
The Transformers

Successful innovation goes beyond technology, to include commerce and policy

Villainy /
Villainy
Upamanyu Chatterjee
The Normality of Evil

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s seventh novel opens with the discovery of a dead body in a park. He speaks to Nandini Nair about creating crafty characters and the villainy principle

I Have Not Seen Mandu /
I Have Not Seen Mandu
Swadesh Deepak | Translated by Jerry Pinto
An Imprisoned Mind

A fractured memoir that is as much about madness as it is about writing

Motherland: Pushpamala N’s Woman and Nation /
Motherland: Pushpamala N’s Woman and Nation
Edited by Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy
What’s in a Medium?

Pushpamala N’s photo-performances open up to scrutiny the act of dressing-up and posing for the camera, as well as the desire to recreate visual stories

Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend /
Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend
Devapriya Sanyal
The Spectator’s Star

The making of Salman Khan, the icon

Violeta /
Violeta
Isabel Allende | Translated by Frances Riddle
Isabel Allende: The Reckoning

Isabel Allende’s new novel is about a woman steeped in history

A History of Objects: A Collection Of Stories /
A History of Objects: A Collection Of Stories
Carlo Pizzati
Life Is Everything

A storyteller objectifies human nature

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