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Book Reviews

Love Remains

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

A husband’s photo diary of his wife’s private and final moments makes the personal universal

Nowhere
Nitesh Noor Mohanty
Shameless /
Shameless
Taslima Nasreen, Translated by Arunava Sinha
Lesser Lives

Taslima Nasreen’s new novel, the sequel to Lajja, grapples with the exiled and the persecuted

Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar /
Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
Oliver Craske
Ravi Shankar: The Hermit and the Heartbreaker

Oliver Craske’s biography reveals the many lives of Ravi Shankar by balancing his personal history with his musical mastery

Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver /
Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver
Urjit Patel
Rage against the Machine

Urjit Patel provides a critique of fiscal overreach

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire /
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra’s Protest

The impossibility of creating utopias

The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World /
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World
Samir Puri
Imperial Inheritance

Has the empire been the default model for global governance?

Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World /
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World
Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg
Unmade by China

How the Chinese Communist Party has been reshaping the post-Cold War world order by remoulding nations, societies and institutions from within

A Ballad of Remittent Fever /
A Ballad of Remittent Fever
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay | Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha
The Good Doctors

A riveting account of three generations of physicians in colonial Bengal who performed ordinary miracles in their daily lives

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