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Book Reviews

A Local Crossword

Sanjay Sipahimalani

The romance of south Mumbai

Bombay Balchao
Jane Borges
Ever Upwards ISRO In Images /
Ever Upwards ISRO In Images
VP Balagangadharan, PV Manoranjan Rao, BN Suresh
In Search of New Frontiers

The brains and blood behind ISRO

The Prospect of Miracles /
The Prospect of Miracles
Cyrus Mistry
Being Cyrus

Cyrus Mistry moves away from the Parsi settings of his earlier works to a quiet cardamom farm in Kerala for his new novel

Tawaifnama /
Tawaifnama
Saba Dewan
A Courtesan’s Tale

A journalistic exercise on tawaifs, which also provides a history of sexuality, secularism and ‘propriety’ in India

The Many That I Am: Writings from Nagaland /
The Many That I Am: Writings from Nagaland
Edited by Anjulika Zoe Longkumer
Speaking in their own Voices

New creative forces from Nagaland and Manipur

Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy /
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy
Brittany Kaiser
Data Capitalism

A tell-all account by former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser reveals why data is the new oil

Aranyaka: Book of the Forest /
Aranyaka: Book of the Forest
Amruta Patil and Devdutt Pattanaik
Life Is a Forest

Liberated women of the Vedic times

Girl in White Cotton /
Girl in White Cotton
Avni Doshi
Mothers and Daughters

A different kind of family saga

Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict /
Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Benjamin Dix | Illustrated by Lindsay Pollock
Being Alive

Surviving the Sri Lankan war

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

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