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Book Reviews

The Sherpa Saga

Shail Desai

The forgotten heroes of the Himalayas

The Sherpa Trail: Stories from Darjeeling and Beyond
Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar
Imphal-Kohima,1944 /
Imphal-Kohima,1944
Hemant Singh Katoch
The Far East Campaign

A battlefield guide to the Imphal Kohima 1944 war

The Spoiled Heart /
The Spoiled Heart
Sunjeev Sahota
Sunjeev Sahota: Class Apart

Sunjeev Sahota, two-time Booker Prize nominee, speaks about his new novel that deals with race and identity

And they Lived… Ever After:  Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales /
And they Lived… Ever After: Disabled Women Retell Fairy Tales
Edited by Rising Flame
Equally Ever After

An anthology that changes the fairy tale into a space of inclusion

Right Angle to Life /
Right Angle to Life
Krishnan Srinivasan
Murder in Burdwan

A filmmaker’s death reveals unusual truths about small town Bengal

Leech and Other Stories /
Leech and Other Stories
Ranjan Adiga
Calls of Kathmandu

Contemporary Nepalis struggling to belong to new worlds

Unmasked: Reflections in Brush and Ink  /
Unmasked: Reflections in Brush and Ink
Nandita Chaudhuri
Shades and Tones

Nandita Chaudhuri’s multidisciplinary language of poems and paintings investigates human nature

The Fall of Kabul: Despatches from Chaos /
The Fall of Kabul: Despatches from Chaos
Nayanima Basu
Kabul Falling

A ringside view of the collapse of Afghanistan

Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest For Immortality /
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest For Immortality
Venki Ramakrishnan
The Pursuit of Longevity

Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan’s deep dive into the human endeavour against ageing and death has a surprising conclusion

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