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Book Reviews

‘There is no biological basis to race’

Bhavya Dore

Angela Saini dismantles notions of ethnicity and colour in her latest book. The author in conversation with Bhavya Dore

Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra Series— Book III) /
Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra Series— Book III)
Amish Tripathi
The Allure of the Anti-Hero

Amish Tripathi uses mythology to deliver modern lessons

Blue is Like Blue: Stories /
Blue is Like Blue: Stories
Vinod Kumar Shukla | Translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai
Strangely Familiar

When the everyday seems like a hyper-real dream

Daura /
Daura
Anukrti Upadhyay
Heat and Dust

Stories that transform the harsh desert into a mystical world

Underland: A Deep Time Journey /
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane: The Life Below

Robert Macfarlane descends into dark depths to tell a compelling story of the present

This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto /
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta: From America with Love and Anger

Suketu Mehta’s new book provides a corrective narrative about the world’s migrants. He tells why the debate around immigration is a contest of storytelling

Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretence  /
Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretence
Dean Spears
When Breath Becomes Fatal

Author and researcher Dean Spears asserts that India’s air pollution does not merely kill children, it also impacts each generation of survivors

Babu Bangladesh /
Babu Bangladesh
Numair Atif Choudhury
Epic Leaps

A mystic’s journey through the labyrinth of time

Arsonist: Poet, Weaver, Seer, Blashemer /
Arsonist: Poet, Weaver, Seer, Blashemer
Kiran Nagarkar
Moral Overdose

Kiran Nagarkar’s novel about Kabir collapses under its didactic weight

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