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Book Reviews

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: ‘Films Are Like Your Best Friends’

Kaveree Bamzai

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, director of ground-breaking movies, relives his spectacular success and noble failures

The Stranger in the Mirror
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington, Dc /
Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington, Dc
Kaushik Basu
It’s the Economy, Stupid!

A star economist recounts his experience as a policy wonk

Rajinikanth: A Life /
Rajinikanth: A Life
Vaasanthi
The Rebel Model

The inscrutable art and life of Rajinikanth

A Begum and A Rani: Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857 /
A Begum and A Rani: Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Redeeming the Rani

Seeking Lakshmibai between history and legend

The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues /
The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues
András Szánto
What’s the future of the art museum post-Covid?

András Szántó delves into the subject and expects Indians and others not to ape the West, but to democratise museums

India: A Story Through 100 Objects /
India: A Story Through 100 Objects
Vidya Dehejia
An Objective History

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

A Passage North /
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
The Wages of War

The Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam, whose new book portrays the island after the civil war, speaks to Nandini Nair about the spectatorship of violence and the persistence of grief

The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India /
The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India
Kaveree Bamzai
Sunset on Khan Market?

After three decades of entertaining India and the diaspora, the era of Bollywood’s reigning trinity seems to be fading out

Democracy Rules /
Democracy Rules
Jan-Werner Müller
Three Cheers for Democracy

What matters most is not the divinity of elections but the dignity of winning as well as losing

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