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Book Reviews

‘There was no telling where a new bud might sprout’

Girish Karnad

In his memoir, translated for the first time into English, Girish Karnad writes that his artistic evolution began the instant he set foot in college

This Life At Play: Memoirs
Translated from the Kannada by Girish Karnad (1938-2019) and Srinath Perur
The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World /
The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Linda Colley
The First Draft

An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions

Whereabouts /
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Author of Anywhere

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, written in Italian and translated into English, refreshes her themes of solitude and belonging with renewed vigour

Leave the World Behind /
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Edge of the Abyss

A middle-class American family confront uncomfortable truths in a time of crisis

A Matter of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump /
A Matter of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump
Meenakshi Ahamed
Portraits of Power

The India-US relationship as a study in leadership

India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present /
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present
Shivshankar Menon
Living With China

New Delhi has a chance to build coalitions of the willing to shape Beijing’s behaviour

First Person Singular /
First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami | Translated by Philip Gabriel
Haruki Murakami: Enchanter Emeritus

The familiar and the fantastical permeate a new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami

1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness /
1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness
Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya
Once Upon a Time at the Oval

The twin series triumphs in England and the West Indies in 1971 were the ‘Renaissance of Indian Cricket’

Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir  /
Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir
Kobad Ghandy
The Principled Life of Kobad Ghandy

Memoirs of a man who was born into affluence but chose a life of struggle

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