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Book Reviews

Idol Worship

Aditya Iyer

India’s obsession with cricket seen through a super fan in Chennai

Everyday Indian Aesthetic /
Everyday Indian Aesthetic
Sayali Goyal
The Beauty Myth

Sayali Goyal finds in ordinary objects the richness of Indian design. The photographer tells how she turns the mundane into the magnificent

Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilisation was Discovered /
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilisation was Discovered
Nayanjot Lahiri
The Discovery that Changed Indian History

Nayanjot Lahiri unearths ASI files to retell how the cities of the Indus Civilisation were found a hundred years ago

Breaking Rocks and Barriers: Memoirs of a Geologist and Mountaineer /
Breaking Rocks and Barriers: Memoirs of a Geologist and Mountaineer
Sudipta Sengupta
Woman on the Peak

A pioneering geologist and explorer recounts her life

The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly /
The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly
Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali
Founding Women

The making of the Indian republic in 15 portraits

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War /
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
Giles Milton
In Uncle Joe’s Bunker

An American tycoon, a British diplomat and how they got Stalin to play ball with Roosevelt and Churchill

The Company of Violent Men: Dispatches from the Bloody Fault Lines of the Subcontinent  /
The Company of Violent Men: Dispatches from the Bloody Fault Lines of the Subcontinent
Siddharthya Roy
Battle Lines

An investigative journalist’s chronicle of conflicts in the region

Everything There Is /
Everything There Is
MG Vassanji
The Science of Believing

MG Vassanji’s new novel inspired by true events describes a physicist’s downfall

The Homeland’s An Ocean /
The Homeland’s An Ocean
Ranjit Hoskote
Breaking the Rules

Rewriting the art of poetry

Law and the Economy In India: Before Independence and After /
Law and the Economy In India: Before Independence and After
Tirthankar Roy and Anand V Swamy
Market Laws

The evolution of India’s legal system and its impact on the economy

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