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Book Reviews

‘I want to treat facts of history as sacred,’ says Navtej Sarna

Nandini Nair

Navtej Sarna’s new novel recounts the horrors of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author and diplomat speaks to Nandini Nair about writing the history of Punjab and the freedom struggle through fiction

Crimson Spring
Navtej Sarna
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution /
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution
Nils Melzer
The Inconvenient Dissident

The persecution of Julian Assange is the criminalisation of investigative journalism

Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India /
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India
Akshya Saxena
Resistance Tongue

English has always been imagined as an ally of the Dalit struggle

Jezebel /
Jezebel
KR Meera | Translated into English by Abhirami Girija Sriram and KS Bijukumar
KR Meera: The Rebel’s Credo

KR Meera’s latest novel blends mythology and history. The Malayalam author tells Aditya Mani Jha about creating strong women characters and the lure of the Bible

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women /
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
Introduction by Lyse Doucet
A Home in Memory

Eighteen women writers imagine Afghanistan of the moment

Why Do You Fear My Ways So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison  /
Why Do You Fear My Ways So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison
GN Saibaba
No Sky Above

A wheelchair-bound prisoner’s appeal to the state and to humanity

Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery /
Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery
Edited by BlueKraft Digital Foundation
The Iron Will

How Narendra Modi strengthened India’s defence

Bitter Wash Road /
Bitter Wash Road
Garry Disher
Spot the Killer

An eclectic crop of detectives in our midst—a constable in a backwater town; an inspector examining deleted audio files; a woman detective in 1920s Bangalore; and a middle-aged bachelor-priest

A Country Called Childhood: A Memoir /
A Country Called Childhood: A Memoir
Deepti Naval
Deepti Naval: The Girl from Ambershire

Deepti Naval’s memoir is a love letter to her parents and the city of her birth

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