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Book Reviews

What’s in a Medium?

Karin Zitzewitz

Pushpamala N’s photo-performances open up to scrutiny the act of dressing-up and posing for the camera, as well as the desire to recreate visual stories

Motherland: Pushpamala N’s Woman and Nation
Edited by Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy
Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend /
Salman Khan: The Man, The Actor, The Legend
Devapriya Sanyal
The Spectator’s Star

The making of Salman Khan, the icon

Violeta /
Violeta
Isabel Allende | Translated by Frances Riddle
Isabel Allende: The Reckoning

Isabel Allende’s new novel is about a woman steeped in history

A History of Objects: A Collection Of Stories /
A History of Objects: A Collection Of Stories
Carlo Pizzati
Life Is Everything

A storyteller objectifies human nature

The Book of the Dog /
The Book of the Dog
Edited by Hemali Sodhi
Pet Intimacy

Two anthologies by pet parents pay tribute to beloved dogs and cats

Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas /
Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
Anirudh Kanisetti
Power and Religion

The complex evolution of cultures and societies in the Deccan

Annus Horribilis /
Annus Horribilis
Avinab Datta-Areng
Dream Verse

Avinab Datta-Areng’s debut poetry collection confronts family, loss and death. Aditya Mani Jha speaks to the poet

1946—Last War of Independence: Royal Indian Navy Mutiny /
1946—Last War of Independence: Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Pramod Kapoor
The Right Rebels

Pramod Kapoor restores the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny to its proper place in the history of the freedom struggle

To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid /
To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid
Barkha Dutt
We Were Bereft. As Daughters. And As Citizens

A journalist’s personal, yet universal, grief during the pandemic

Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal /
Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal
Rajshree Chandra
The Poet Patriot

The moral and political life of Jagat Narain Lal

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