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Book Reviews

A Nationalist before Nationalism

Siddharth Singh

The political evolution of Dadabhai Naoroji

Destination Wedding /
Destination Wedding
Diksha Basu
The Drawing Room Writer

Diksha Basu’s new novel is irreverent and glamorous. She tells Urvashi Bahuguna there is more to literature than tortured stories

A Burning /
A Burning
Megha Majumdar
The Bright Spark

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, about a terrorist attack, deals with the big questions of contemporary India with a light hand

The End of October /
The End of October
Lawrence Wright
In Conversation with Lawrence Wright

‘If you can go to a protest, why can’t you go to a football game, why can’t you go to a political convention?,’ Lawrence Wright tells Nandini Nair

Gone Away: An Indian Journal /
Gone Away: An Indian Journal
Dom Moraes
 | Introduction by Jerry Pinto
A Poet’s Prose

Dom Moraes’ travelogue is delicious piece of literary journalism from the 1950s

The Rickshaw Reveries /
The Rickshaw Reveries
Ipshita Nath
Capital Noir

Delhi stories where the boundaries between pleasure and violence are disturbingly blurred

You People /
You People
Nikita Lalwani
Loyalty and Longing

An immigrant’s tale in London raises ethical questions

Chosen Spirits /
Chosen Spirits
Samit Basu
The Future is Now

Samit Basu’s dystopian novel cleverly blurs the line between fact and fiction

Undertow /
Undertow
Jahnavi Barua
Searching For Home

Jahnavi Barua’s novel delves into the complexities of familial bonds in strife-ridden Assam

Forgotten Science: Strange Ideas from the Scrapheap of History /
Forgotten Science: Strange Ideas from the Scrapheap of History
SD Tucker
Dead Ends and Blind Alleys

SD Tucker chronicles the strangest scientific experiments from the wreckage of history

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