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Book Reviews

Mapping the Hindu Mind

Rajshree Chandra

Understanding VD Savarkar’s political thought through his idea of history

Ambedkar: A Life /
Ambedkar: A Life
Shashi Tharoor
BR Ambedkar: Flawed Genius

In a new biography of Ambedkar, Shashi Tharoor gets a measure of the constitutionalist and nation-builder, contending that an honest survey of Ambedkar’s life and its impact needs to also look at those faults for which he can be legitimately criticised without taking away from his greatness

Ricky Reel: Silence is Not an Option /
Ricky Reel: Silence is Not an Option
Sukhdev Reel
Who Killed My Son?

An Indian-origin mother chronicles her 25-year-long battle for justice in the UK

Between You, Me & The Four Walls: The Social Butterfly Bulletin /
Between You, Me & The Four Walls: The Social Butterfly Bulletin
Moni Mohsin
Moni Mohsin: Flights of the Butterfly

Moni Mohsin returns with her party-going, status-chasing, protagonist. She tells Bhavya Dore why she looks at Pakistani society through a gossipy socialite

China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower /
China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
Frank Dikötter
China: The Great Wall of Hubris

How China suppresses even the faintest stirrings of an open society

Sojourn /
Sojourn
Amit Chaudhuri
A Pause in Berlin

Amit Chaudhuri’s new novel is interested not in events but the interruptions

The Education of Yuri /
The Education of Yuri
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto: Mumbai on His Mind

Jerry Pinto’s new novel is about urban adolescence in the eighties. He speaks to Open about the humiliations of college and the joys of language

Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Intervention That Made a Difference /
Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Intervention That Made a Difference
Edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, Neelima Khetan and Jayapadma RV
Towards A More Equal Society

Lessons from seventy-five years of successful grassroots intervention

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