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Book Reviews

Leaving Kashmir

Nandini Bhatia

A memoir of displacement and its aftereffects

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise /
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing: Garden Queen

Olivia Laing’s new book examines the idea of paradise. The author and cultural critic speaks about the pleasures of gardens, their hidden costs and the meaning of home

Tilak: The Empire’s Biggest Enemy  /
Tilak: The Empire’s Biggest Enemy
Vaibhav Purandare
The Man Who Did Not Bend

Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the radical in politics and a gradualist on social reform

Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade /
Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade
Edited by Aishwarya Pandit
The Redeemer’s Rite

Narendra Modi has redefined national freedom as cultural inheritance and civilisational memory

Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade  /
Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade
Edited by Aishwarya Pandit
The Modi Dynamism

How the prime minister dismantled one legacy and built another

Mother India /
Mother India
Prayaag Akbar
Nation on Trial

Prayaag Akbar’s new novel is a portrait of online India

Blue Ruin /
Blue Ruin
Hari Kunzru
Art of Love

Hari Kunzru’s new novel completes his trilogy on creative pursuits. The author speaks to

Mangifera Indica: A Biography of the Mango  /
Mangifera Indica: A Biography of the Mango
Sopan Joshi
Fruit of the Nation

Sopan Joshi’s encyclopaedic biography of the mango reveals why it is intrinsic to India. The author in conversation with

FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist /
FN Souza: The Archetypal Artist
Janeita Singh
Souza’s Gaze

The life and legacy of the artist with a female fetish

The Lion and the Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh /
The Lion and the Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh
Ira Mukhoty
The French Connection

Ira Mukhoty uses alternative histories in her portrait of Awadh. She tells how the old Western point of view has become dated

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