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Book Reviews

Speaking in their own Voices

Rini Barman

New creative forces from Nagaland and Manipur

The Many That I Am: Writings from Nagaland
Edited by Anjulika Zoe Longkumer
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

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

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