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Book Reviews

The Dance of Freedom

Chitra Ahanthem

An intergenerational story about Devadasis

Breaking Free
Vaasanthi | Translated by N Kalyan Raman
Managing Arts in Times of Pandemics and Beyond /
Managing Arts in Times of Pandemics and Beyond
A Damodaran
The Art of Eternity

How to prepare the post-pandemic cultural world for its digital future

Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices /
Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
‘Art is a great area to study luck’

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s new book deals with what the right data can tell us about who we are and how we might make our lives better. The economist in conversation with

The Last White Man /
The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
‘I write more with my ears than my eyes,’ says Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid’s new book upends the idea of racial categories. He speaks about why his novels are love stories

The Bellboy /
The Bellboy
Anees Salim
The Bellboy

Fiction

The Wait and Other Stories /
The Wait and Other Stories
Damodar Mauzo | Translated from Konkani by Xavier Cota
Goa of the Mind

Imagining the sweep of diversity

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK /
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
The Coven of Chums

Simon Kuper’s new book uncovers the ‘Oxford flaws’. He tells Ullekh NP why Brexit’s origins lie in the elite British institution

The Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India /
The Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India
Sarita Sundar
The Seat of Power

The cultural evolution of the Indian chair

Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia /
Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia
Farah Ahamed
Truths and Taboos

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

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