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Book Reviews

Cocooned in Time

Geeta Doctor

A cultural and biological history of silk

The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told /
The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by AJ Thomas
Metaphorical Malayalee

A portrait of Kerala in fifty stories

Modi & India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat /
Modi & India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat
Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya
The Second Republic

Can a Hindu Rashtra be a pluralistic nation?

Never Out of Print: The Rupa Story: The Journey of an Independent Indian Publisher /
Never Out of Print: The Rupa Story: The Journey of an Independent Indian Publisher
Rajen Mehra
Bouquets and Books

The author, a pioneer in Indian publishing, relives a journey that began from Calcutta’s New Market with Hermann Hesse as one of the guides. An excerpt from his memoir

Why Bharat Matters /
Why Bharat Matters
S Jaishankar
Flexible Power

National interest will guide India unerringly if it does not get distracted by ideological reservations

Kashmir: Book 3 of The Partition Trilogy /
Kashmir: Book 3 of The Partition Trilogy
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
A Line Runs through It

Hope and hopelessness in Kashmir during Partition

Mad Sisters of Esi /
Mad Sisters of Esi
Tashan Mehta
Cosmic Chaos

Two sisters learn about family and belonging in the belly of a fantasy whale

Fire on the Ganges:  Life Among the Dead in Banaras /
Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
Radhika Iyengar
Where Life and Death Coexist

The Doms who sustain Banaras’ burning ghats

The Woman Who Climbed Trees /
The Woman Who Climbed Trees
Smriti Ravindra
The Tides of Terai

A family’s search for happiness on the India-Nepal border

A Democracy In Retreat: Revisiting the End of Power /
A Democracy In Retreat: Revisiting the End of Power
Ashwani Kumar
A Doctrine of Dignity

Ashwani Kumar’s new book is a compelling argument for justice

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