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Book Reviews

States of Unrest

Nandini Nair

Neel Mukherjee’s new novel is a quarrel with capitalism. The author speaks about choices made and those deferred

Choice
Neel Mukherjee
Postcards from the Peripheries /
Postcards from the Peripheries
Sumana Roy
In Praise of the Provincial

Why those from small towns, whether it is William Shakespeare or DH Lawrence, are the equal of their more urban peers

Banned: A Social Media Trial /
Banned: A Social Media Trial
Boria Majumdar
Why I Don’t Look Back in Anger

Author and sports journalist Boria Majumdar in his memoir relives how he survived a ban on him and the social media trial that followed. Here is his side of the story

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder /
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

How We Vote: The Factors That Influence Voters /
How We Vote: The Factors That Influence Voters
Surjit S Bhalla and Abhinav Motheram
Minority Report: How Muslim’s Fare in Modi’s India

Muslims in Modi’s India are doing better than Blacks in the US

The Gentleman from Peru /
The Gentleman from Peru
André Aciman
Past Continuous

Of incomplete lives and eternal love

Before I Forget /
Before I Forget
MK Raina
‘Theatre Is Questions. Theatre Is Debate’

In his memoir actor and director MK Raina recounts using theatre to heal

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq  /
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq
Steve Coll
The Liar Who Told the Truth

Steve Coll’s new book shows how mutual misunderstandings led to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and its catastrophic aftermath

The Chandayan /
The Chandayan
Translated by Richard J Cohen
Mad with Love

An ancient romance as a spiritual allegory

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