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Book Reviews

Being the Scindias

Reshmi Dasgupta

A family that has ensured a seamless transition from the top rung of one system to another

Murder on the Menu: The Sensational Story of the Tycoon Who Founded Saravana Bhavan /
Murder on the Menu: The Sensational Story of the Tycoon Who Founded Saravana Bhavan
Nirupama Subramanian
The Fall of the Dosa King

How the discovery of a body in the Western Ghats had led to the conviction of P Rajagopal, founder of Saravana Bhavan, for murder

Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest /
Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest
Boria Majumdar and Kushan Sarkar
Mohammed Siraj: Father’s Son

The grief, determination and team spirit behind Mohammed Siraj’s success in Australia

Khwabnama /
Khwabnama
Akhtaruzzaman Elias | Translated by Arunava Sinha
Between Landscapes and Dreamscapes

A majestic celebration of the cultural diversity of the subcontinent

Song of Draupadi  /
Song of Draupadi
Ira Mukhoty
Resistance and Resilience

Women characters in the Mahabharata push back against patriarchy in a new interpretation of the epic

Better to Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville /
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
Akash Kapur
Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

Akash Kapur’s nonfiction book tells of the quest for utopia in Auroville. He speaks to Nandini Nair about writing history without judgement and the impossibility of an ideal world

Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I. /
Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of the R.A.W. and the I.S.I.
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
Spy vs Spy

When the RAW put the ISI in a spot after 9/11

One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B /
One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B
CP Surendran
Stalin as Metaphor

CP Surendran marshals powerful characters to link the old and the new

Are You Enjoying?  /
Are You Enjoying?
Mira Sethi
Forbidden Intimacies

A debut short story collection from Pakistan lays bare power and desire

Home in the World /
Home in the World
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen: A Prologue to Greatness

From his ancestral home in Dhaka to the Bengal famine to Tagore’s tutelage at Santiniketan. Amartya Sen in his memoirs relives his formative years with wit and wisdom

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