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Book Reviews

Family Truths

Sanjay Sipahimalani

An exploration of the Indian middle-class psyche

Sakina’s Kiss
Vivek Shanbhag |Translated from Kannada by Srinath Perur
Women In the Wild: Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists /
Women In the Wild: Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists
Edited by Anita Mani
Ladies of the Land

Celebrating women who have pioneered research and conservation

Igniting Collective Goodness: MannKiBaat@100 /
Igniting Collective Goodness: MannKiBaat@100
BlueKraft Digital Foundation
Radio Nation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat completed 100 episodes earlier this year. A new book, Igniting Collective Goodness: MannKiBaat@100, explores how it has been integrating India and transforming it socially

The Running Grave /
The Running Grave
Robert Galbraith
Innocence versus Evil

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott infiltrate a religious cult and realise the limits of free will

The Indian Cat: Stories, Paintings, Poetry & Proverbs /
The Indian Cat: Stories, Paintings, Poetry & Proverbs
BN Goswamy
Cat-alogue

A cultural portrait of the Indian cat

The Colonial Constitution: An Origin Story  /
The Colonial Constitution: An Origin Story
Arghya Sengupta
Origin Story

A recent book asks if India needs a new constitution

Won’t You Stay Radhika? /
Won’t You Stay Radhika?
Usha Priyamvada | Translated by Daisy Rockwell
Lost at Home

A landmark Hindi novel of the 1960s, now translated into English, tells of a woman caught between individual freedom and social obligation

The Best Possible Experience: Stories /
The Best Possible Experience: Stories
Nishanth Injam
Home Truths

Stories on the best and worst of life

The Less you Preach the More you Know: Aphorisms for Our Age /
The Less you Preach the More you Know: Aphorisms for Our Age
Shashi Tharoor and Joseph Zacharias | Illustra­tions by Priya Kuriyan
Shashi Tharoor: Word Class

Shashi Tharoor’s new book is a collection of aphorisms. The author and politician speaks about the art of provocation to

Tall Tales by a Small Dog /
Tall Tales by a Small Dog
Omair Ahmad
Dog Days

Stories from Gorakhpur where fact and fiction merge

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