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Book Reviews

Neither Polemical nor Prejudicial

Pralay Kanungo

A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS

Suralakshmi Villa /
Suralakshmi Villa
Aruna Chakravarti
House of Spirits

A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance

Soar /
Soar
Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar: ‘There Are No Atheists in the Trenches’

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future /
Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Future Present

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world

White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes /
White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
An Outsider’s Gaze

A contemporary ethnographic work on isolated tribes that trespasses too often

Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology /
Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology
Edited by Prerna Singh Bindra, Sonali Ghosh and Anuranjan Roy
Ode to Nature

A journey across Asia’s most beautiful wildernesses

The Boy from the Woods /
The Boy from the Woods
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben: ‘I like starting with a placid lake. I can then just drop a small pebble and see what happens’

In his latest novel, Harlan Coben writes about a feral child being adopted. The master of the suburban thriller tells Lhendup G Bhutia why pleasant families make for compelling stories

The Mirror and the Light  /
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel
Mantel’s Genius

The final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy proves how the kingmaker can make for a more compelling story than the king

The Flight of the Arconaut /
The Flight of the Arconaut
Sophia Khan
Tinker a Tale

The everyday ingenuity we see around us is at the heart of steampunk, a genre defined by its combination of modern technology and anachronistic settings

Hijab /
Hijab
Guruprasad Kaginele | Translated by Pavan N. Rao
Medical and Social Drama

Kannada author Guruprasad Kaginele's novel shows the many challenges of Indian doctors in an all-white town

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