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Book Reviews

India and China: The Incompatibles

Kanti Bajpai

Four reasons why India and China are not friends

Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir /
Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
Farah Bashir
Curfewed Lives

An archive of trauma and psychic wounds from Kashmir

The Spirit of Enquiry /
The Spirit of Enquiry
TM Krishna
TM Krishna: A Thinker’s Raga

TM Krishna in a new collection of essays plays the parts of artist and citizen to perfection

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment /
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R Sunstein
Beyond the Bias

Nobel Prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman re-examines human follies and suggests remedies

Notes on Grief /
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Permanent Scattering

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mourns the death of her father

Wanderers, Kings, Merchants; The Story of India through Its Languages /
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants; The Story of India through Its Languages
Peggy Mohan
The Spoken Word Order

Migration, both external and internal, has shaped the languages that we speak

Budhini  /
Budhini
Sarah Joseph | Translated from the Malayalam by Sangeetha Sreenivasan
Intangible Lives

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

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

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