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Book Reviews

The First Heroine

Suneetha Balakrishnan

A fictional account of Kerala’s forgotten female Dalit actor of the 1930s

The Lost Heroine
Vinu Abraham | Translated from Malayalam by CS Venkiteswaran and Arathy Ashok
Red Fear: The China Threat /
Red Fear: The China Threat
Iqbal Chand Malhotra
Mao Against Nehru

When the CIA came to India’s rescue in 1962

Each of Us Killers /
Each of Us Killers
Jenny Bhatt
The Bloodlust

Short stories on the violence of big and small kinds

Preparing for Death /
Preparing for Death
Arun Shourie
The Sense of an Ending

Preparing for death

Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of an Unconventional Life /
Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of an Unconventional Life
Tenzin Priyadarshi and Zara Houshmand
The Inner and Outer Life

Applying spiritual ethics to policymaking and justice

Karunanidhi: The Definitive Biography /
Karunanidhi: The Definitive Biography
Vaasanthi
The Last Scriptwriter

An empathetic portrait of Karunanidhi

Red Pill /
Red Pill
Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru: ‘Every one of my dark fears has come true’

The world Hari Kunzru portrays in his new novel is both familiar and near-mad. The novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

The End of an Era: India Exits Tibet – India – Tibet Relations 1947 – 1962, Part 4 /
The End of an Era: India Exits Tibet – India – Tibet Relations 1947 – 1962, Part 4
Claude Arpi
Putting Tibet Back in Focus

Historian Claude Arpi goes beyond the British and Chinese narratives to examine older ties between India and the region

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