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Book Reviews

Claiming her Identity

Saurabh Sharma

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

Blue Sky, White Cloud  /
Blue Sky, White Cloud
Nirmal Ghosh
Jungle Books

Three novellas that give voice to the wild

Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk /
Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk
DBC Pierre
The Gambler’s Choice

Calculating risks through mathematics and some philosophy

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

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 /
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

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