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Book Reviews

An Objective History

Vinay Lal

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

Shamal Days /
Shamal Days
Sabin Iqbal
Desert Pains

Expatriate anguish in an imagined country in the Gulf

Sach Kahun Toh: An Autobiography  /
Sach Kahun Toh: An Autobiography
Neena Gupta
Hard Truths

Neena Gupta’s memoir is about persistence, patience and the ability to pick up the pieces

Tata: The Global Corporation that Built Indian Capitalism  /
Tata: The Global Corporation that Built Indian Capitalism
Mircea Raianu
The House of Tatas

A portrait of a business group as a capital asset in history

The Startup Wife /
The Startup Wife
Tahmima Anam
‘All writers are outsiders,’ says Tahmima Anam

Tahmima Anam’s new novel moves away from her Bangladesh trilogy. She speaks to Antara Raghavan about chronicling the seductions and perils of the startup world

The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis /
The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis
Coomi Kapoor
The Legend of the Poonawallas

Pomp, philanthropy and an affordable Covid vaccine for India. Yet another Parsi saga

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