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Book Reviews

Why Beijing Behaves Badly

Rajeev Deshpande

Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran analyses China’s conduct towards India

Hawk and Hyena /
Hawk and Hyena
Farrukh Dhondy
Who Is Charles Sobhraj?

Farrukh Dhondy’s portrait of an elusive and enigmatic character

Translating Myself and Others /
Translating Myself and Others
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Loss of Others

Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses provided the logical next step of my literary journey and gave me some solace in grief

Maverick Commissioner: The IPL-Lalit Modi Saga /
Maverick Commissioner: The IPL-Lalit Modi Saga
Boria Majumdar
Chasing Lalit Modi

The former IPL chairman makes you sweat and enjoys your discomfort before agreeing to tell his side of the story

An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections 1963–64 /
An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections 1963–64
Wendy Doniger
The Making of an Indophile

Wendy Doniger’s early impressions of the country, written in her 20s

Half-Blood /
Half-Blood
Pronoti Datta
Fractured Lives

A daughter’s quest for her father helps her find herself

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History /
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Vidya Krishnan
Bad Blood

A portrait of tuberculosis that reveals society’s ill-informed choices

How China Sees India and the World  /
How China Sees India and the World
Shyam Saran
China’s India Complex

The model that frightens Beijing the most

To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World And Shaped Ours /
To Raise A Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World And Shaped Ours
Rahul Sagar
India of the Mind

Far from being colonised subjects, Indians in the 19th century had a vibrant sense of strategic affairs

How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft and Freedom in Modern Societies /
How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft and Freedom in Modern Societies
Stein Ringen
The Persistence of Democracy

Stein Ringen offers a new definition for democracy and hits out at sceptics

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