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Book Reviews

Intangible Lives

Suneetha Balakrishnan

The human cost of nation building told through the story of a Santhal girl

Budhini
Sarah Joseph | Translated from the Malayalam by Sangeetha Sreenivasan
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 /
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
Vikram Sampath
In Search of the Real Savarkar

The place of Muslims in his Hindu Rashtra

Languages of Truth /
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Testament of the Wonderstruck

Salman Rushdie in defence of his wonder tales

Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India /
Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India
Ghazala Wahab
Questions of Identity

What does Islam mean to Indians, Muslim and non-Muslim

Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India /
Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
Suchitra Vijayan
The Walking Wounded

Questions of citizenship in an increasingly nationalistic world

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War /
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War
Malcolm Gladwell
The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book examines one of the great moral challenges of World War II and the price of different actions

Philip Roth: The Biography /
Philip Roth: The Biography
Blake Bailey
Roth Unbound

Remembering an American master on the anniversary of his death—and the biography that boomeranged

Intimate City /
Intimate City
Manjima Bhattacharjya
The Business of Pleasure

The offline and online contours of sex work in Mumbai

Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias /
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias
Stephen Biddle
Rebels versus Soldiers

Increasingly, guerrilla groups and government troops exhibit similar military behaviour

The Unmarriageable Man /
The Unmarriageable Man
Ashok Ferrey
Ashok Ferrey: Our Fathers in Heaven

Ashok Ferrey’s new book captures Sri Lankans at home and abroad. The author tells Antara Raghavan about the persistence of grief and the art of construction

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