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Book Reviews

China: The Great Wall of Hubris

Frank Dikötter

How China suppresses even the faintest stirrings of an open society

Sojourn /
Sojourn
Amit Chaudhuri
A Pause in Berlin

Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel is interested not in events but the interruptions

The Education of Yuri /
The Education of Yuri
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto: Mumbai on His Mind

Jerry Pinto’s new novel is about urban adolescence in the eighties. He speaks to Open about the humiliations of college and the joys of language

Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Intervention That Made a Difference /
Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Intervention That Made a Difference
Edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, Neelima Khetan and Jayapadma RV
Towards A More Equal Society

Lessons from seventy-five years of successful grassroots intervention

Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857 /
Tears of the Begums: Stories of Survivors of the Uprising of 1857
Khwaja Hasan Nizami | Translated from Urdu by Rana Safvi
The Fall of Red Fort

Oral histories chronicling the end of the Mughals

Shivaji: India’s Great Warrior King /
Shivaji: India’s Great Warrior King
Vaibhav Purandare
The Sword of Shivaji

Bringing the legend of the warrior king to a new generation

Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar: A Citizen’s First Approach /
Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar: A Citizen’s First Approach
Rohini Nilekani
‘You have got to be optimistic in a young country,’ says Rohini Nilekani

Rohini Nilekani speaks to Open about creating a balance between the state, communities and the marketplace

C: A Novel /
C: A Novel
Anupama Raju
Eternal City

A poetic battle to write and find love in a new place

Stories of the True /
Stories of the True
Jeyamohan | Translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada
A Search for Moorings

Short stories about the human struggle to follow an ethical path

The Map and The Scissors /
The Map and The Scissors
Amit Majmudar
Entwined Lives

Amit Majmudar’s new book fictionalises a comparative study of Gandhi and Jinnah

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