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Book Reviews

The Longest Road

Shoma Abhyankar

A novel on the homecoming migrant

Homebound
Puja Changoiwala
The Grand Anicut  /
The Grand Anicut
Veena Muthuraman
Water Kingdoms

Indo-Roman ocean trade told through the stories of patricians and plebeians

My Country Is Literature: Adventures in the Reading Life /
My Country Is Literature: Adventures in the Reading Life
Chandrahas Choudhury
Imaginary Homeland

Writing book reviews and living entirely by literature gave Chandrahas Choudhury the time and space, the models and the means to become a novelist

Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence /
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
Shrayana Bhattacharya
Love and Labour

An intimate history of women searching for a more equal and dignified life

A Fish in Alien Streams: The Incredible Journey of the Trout in India /
A Fish in Alien Streams: The Incredible Journey of the Trout in India
Herjinder
Travels of a Fish

How the British introduced the trout to Indian waters

The Odd Book of Baby Names /
The Odd Book of Baby Names
Anees Salim
Anees Salim: The Heirs of the King

Anees Salim’s multi-narrator novel tells of children discovering their lineage

Undocumented: Stories of Indian  Migrants in the Arab Gulf /
Undocumented: Stories of Indian Migrants in the Arab Gulf
Rejimon Kuttappan
‘This white metal box is my home. And it will be my coffin, too’

He migrated to Oman, struggled as an undocumented worker for twenty-two years and returned to a family that did not want him

India Reckoning: Politics, Economy, Governance and Beyond /
India Reckoning: Politics, Economy, Governance and Beyond
Bimal Jalan
The Democratic Pace of Reforms

Slow and steady change, with reasonable consensus, is more durable

Lahore: Book 1 of the Partition Trilogy /
Lahore: Book 1 of the Partition Trilogy
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Delhi and Lahore

The prologue to Partition

A Thousand Cuts: An Innocent Question And Deadly Answers /
A Thousand Cuts: An Innocent Question And Deadly Answers
TJ Joseph | Translated by Nandakumar K
Not Guilty

A memoir by a fugitive who has committed no crime

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