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Book Reviews

No Man’s Land

Antara Raghavan

Perumal Murugan’s novel wins the JCB Prize for its depiction of displacement and movement

Fire Bird
Perumal Murugan | Translated by Janani Kannan
Another Sort of Freedom /
Another Sort of Freedom
Gurcharan Das
‘Reliving your life is superior to living it,’ says Gurcharan Das

Author and corporate guru Gurcharan Das speaks about his memoir to

Roman Stories /
Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri | Translated from Italian by the author with Todd Portnowitz
Always the Outsider

The idea of alienation permeates Jhumpa Lahiri’s new collection of short stories

From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada /
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
Sudha Bharadwaj
The Prison Diarist

Sudha Bharadwaj, an activist on bail, talks about her book on the life in a jail

Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King /
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
Patrick Olivelle
Ashoka: The King Who Said Sorry

Patrick Olivelle’s riveting portrait of Ashoka brings out the universalism of the virtuous ruler

Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns /
Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
MJ Akbar
The Moral Realist

Gandhi’s sympathy for Jews did not blind him to injustice against Arabs

The Sufi’s Nightingale /
The Sufi’s Nightingale
Sarbpreet Singh
Longing in Lahore

The many secrets of love and faith

Another India:Events, Memories, People /
Another India:Events, Memories, People
Chandan Gowda
Of Kings and Mystics

Glimpses into India’s moral traditions

Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East /
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East
Uri Kaufman
Who by His Own Hand?

A new book on the October 1973 Yom Kippur War provides an inadvertent insight into what went wrong for Israel on October 7, 2023

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