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Book Reviews

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: A Different Feminist

Narayani Basu

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s life reflects the story of modern India

Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry /
Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
Arundhathi Subramaniam
The Brazen and the Devout

Arundhathi Subramaniam maps the spiritual poetry movement in India

The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories /
The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories
Subimal Misra | Translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy
Subversive Flair

The deceptive straightforwardness of Subimal Misra’s short stories

Kashi: The Abode of Shiva /
Kashi: The Abode of Shiva
Vijay Rana
Shiva’s Sanctuary

A new book offers a rare glimpse of Banaras and the temple at the heart of the holy city

Until August /
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez
Márquez’s Love and Other Demons

Until August shows why the afterlife of writers is larger than what we read on the pages

The Moral Contagion /
The Moral Contagion
Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee
The Urban Sketcher

Sarnath Banerjee brings alive pandemics throughout history in his latest graphic novel. The author-illustrator speaks to

Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema /
Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema
Debashree Mukherjee
The First Reels

Behind-the-scenes photographs of Bombay Talkies reveal the early days of Indian cinema

Chronicle of an Hour and a Half /
Chronicle of an Hour and a Half
Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari
Anatomy of a Scandal

When village gossip turns into vigilantism

The Lighthouse Family /
The Lighthouse Family
Firat Sunel | Translated by Feyza Howell
‘The trauma of forced migration is in our genes,’ says Firat Sunel

The Turkish Ambassador to India Firat Sunel talks about his novel now translated into English and the challenges of writing fiction as a diplomat

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