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Book Reviews

Being Alive

Sharanya Manivannan

Surviving the Sri Lankan war

Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Benjamin Dix | Illustrated by Lindsay Pollock
A Delhi Obsession /
A Delhi Obsession
MG Vassanji
Capital Punishment

MG Vassanji’s new novel places an inter-faith love story in the heart of a polarised Delhi. The Toronto-based, Indian-African writer in conversation with Shikha Kumar

This is How it Took Place /
This is How it Took Place
Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee
A Beautiful Mind

A gifted teenager, fuelled by intellectual energy, reveals unsaid inner truths

A Week in the Life of Svitlana /
A Week in the Life of Svitlana
Ajay Kamalakaran
Life, Love and Loss

Ajay Kamalakaran’s novel maps the struggles of a single mother against the strife of Russia

Distortion /
Distortion
Distortion
Many Men

Gautam Malkani gives us a psychodrama that is both domestic and existential

The Markandeya Purana /
The Markandeya Purana
Translated by Bibek Debroy
Our Land and Our Self

Bibek Debroy’s translation of the Markandeya Purana is a window to the future

Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development /
Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development
Deepak Nayyar
The Asian Dream

Deepak Nayyar’s masterly deconstruction of a continent’s growth story

Amma /
Amma
Perumal Murugan | Translated by Nandini Murali and Kavitha Muralidharan
Earth Mother

An excerpt from the memoirs of Perumal Murugan

Resilience: Stories of Muslim Women  /
Resilience: Stories of Muslim Women
Shubha Menon
Armed with Diplomas

How education helped women in a Delhi neighbourhood break their shackles

Suncatcher /
Suncatcher
Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera: An Island in Memory

In his new novel, Romesh Gunesekera writes of the ebb and flow of boyhood friendships. The novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair

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