Book Reviews

Truths and Taboos

Fehmida Zakeer

An anthology on the differences and commonalities of menstruation in South Asia

Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia

Farah Ahamed

A Small Step in A Long Journey: A Memoir

Akkai Padmashali

Claiming her Identity

Saurabh Sharma

An activist’s account of trying to change attitudes toward the transgender community

Blue Sky, White Cloud

Nirmal Ghosh

Jungle Books

Prerna Bindra

Three novellas that give voice to the wild

Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk

DBC Pierre

The Gambler’s Choice

Karthik Keramalu

Calculating risks through mathematics and some philosophy

Crimson Spring

Navtej Sarna

‘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

The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution

Nils Melzer

The Inconvenient Dissident

Ullekh NP

The persecution of Julian Assange is the criminalisation of investigative journalism

Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

Akshya Saxena

Resistance Tongue

Akshya Saxena

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

Claiming Citizenship and Nation: Muslim Politics and State Building in North India, 1947–1986

Aishwarya Pandit

The Shadow of Partition

Ullekh NP

Tracing the evolution of Muslim politics in north India

Jezebel

KR Meera | Translated into English by Abhirami Girija Sriram and KS Bijukumar

KR Meera: The Rebel’s Credo

Aditya Mani Jha

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