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Book Reviews

Novelist’s Diary

Aravind Adiga

Since I’ve never learned to drive, I travelled across America by bus. Now I’m going across New Zealand the same way

Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games /
Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games
Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta
Gold Standard

Tokyo Olympics will be a crucial reality check for Indian sports

Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India /
Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India
Amit Khanna
Scene by Scene

The evolution of Indian entertainment as told by a veteran insider

A Long Petal of the Sea /
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Neruda’s Ship

Isabel Allende’s new novel follows exiles in search of a home in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War

Love, Loss, and Longing in Kashmir /
Love, Loss, and Longing in Kashmir
Sahba Husain
Women and Violence

Giving flesh and form to statistics and anecdotes from Kashmir

The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India /
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India
Supriya Gandhi
The Philosopher Who Would Be King

It is hard not to think that India would have been a very different country under Dara Shukoh

Chats with the Dead /
Chats with the Dead
Shehan Karunatalika
From the Spectral Island

Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts

Low /
Low
Jeet Thayil
The Art of Loss

A widower’s weekend of highs and lows in Bombay

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