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Book Reviews

Beyond the Bias

Ullekh NP

Nobel Prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman re-examines human follies and suggests remedies

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R Sunstein
Notes on Grief /
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Permanent Scattering

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mourns the death of her father

Wanderers, Kings, Merchants; The Story of India through Its Languages /
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants; The Story of India through Its Languages
Peggy Mohan
The Spoken Word Order

Migration, both external and internal, has shaped the languages that we speak

Budhini  /
Budhini
Sarah Joseph | Translated from the Malayalam by Sangeetha Sreenivasan
Intangible Lives

The human cost of nation building told through the story of a Santhal girl

Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 /
Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
Vikram Sampath
In Search of the Real Savarkar

The place of Muslims in his Hindu Rashtra

Languages of Truth /
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Testament of the Wonderstruck

Salman Rushdie in defence of his wonder tales

Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India /
Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India
Ghazala Wahab
Questions of Identity

What does Islam mean to Indians, Muslim and non-Muslim

Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India /
Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
Suchitra Vijayan
The Walking Wounded

Questions of citizenship in an increasingly nationalistic world

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War /
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War
Malcolm Gladwell
The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book examines one of the great moral challenges of World War II and the price of different actions

Philip Roth: The Biography /
Philip Roth: The Biography
Blake Bailey
Roth Unbound

Remembering an American master on the anniversary of his death—and the biography that boomeranged

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