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Book Reviews

Chhaunk I On Food, Economics and Society /
Chhaunk I On Food, Economics and Society
Abhijit Banerjee | Illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier
A Man of Taste

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee stirs up a feast with recipes and analysis

Mad About Cuba /
Mad About Cuba
Ullekh NP
Kannur to Cuba

A journalist unearths Kerala’s many ties with the land of Che

A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of My Life /
A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of My Life
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed
A Partial Portrait

Syeda Saiyidain Hameed’s memoir helps decode the paradoxes of the Indian elite

Interstellar MegaChef /
Interstellar MegaChef
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Palate Pleasers

An intergalactic cooking show reveals what governs our taste

Malayali Memorial and Other Stories /
Malayali Memorial and Other Stories
Unni R | Translated from Malayalam by J Devika
Trickster Tales

Kerala of the body and mind

I’ll Have It Here I Poems /
I’ll Have It Here I Poems
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil: Lyrical Impulse

Jeet Thayil faces the calamities of existence in his new collection of poems

Who Is Equal? The Equality Code of the Constitution /
Who Is Equal? The Equality Code of the Constitution
Saurabh Kirpal
All Are Equal?

A lawyer untangles the philosophical and practical tangents of inequality

The End of the Chinese Century?: How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and Road Initiative /
The End of the Chinese Century?: How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and Road Initiative
Bertil Lintner
The Comeuppance

China hasn’t got what it wanted from the Belt and Road Initiative

Ratan Tata: A Life /
Ratan Tata: A Life
Thomas Mathew
Tata’s Trust

A new biography of Ratan Tata chronicles how he nurtured the Tata Group without compromising on the brand’s core values

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