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Book Reviews

Soldier, at Unease

Deepa Bhasthi

A young Israeli man’s struggle against institutions, society and himself

The Drive
Yair Assulin | Translated by Jessica Cohen
Akbar: The Great Mughal /
Akbar: The Great Mughal
Ira Mukhoty
Akbar’s Idea of India

The topical reverberations of Ira Mukhoty’s biography of the great Mughal

Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 /
Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952
Pallavi Raghavan
The Subcontinent at Ease

A history of a brief window of cooperation casts an interesting light on India’s relations with Pakistan

Amnesty /
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Nowhere Man

In his novel about a Sri Lankan migrant in Australia, Aravind Adiga makes the reader care with his well-earned facts

Jaipur Journals /
Jaipur Journals
Namita Gokhale
Festival Insider

Namita Gokhale's true fiction about the most interesting and least known characters of a lit fest

The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West /
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West
Alistair Shearer
An East-West Encounter

An anecdotal account of yoga’s journey from an ancient road to enlightenment to a wellness industry

I Could Not Be Hindu: The Story of a Dalit in the RSS /
I Could Not Be Hindu: The Story of a Dalit in the RSS
Bhanwar Meghwanshi | Translated from the Hindi by Nivedita Menon
The Dalit Who Got Out

Bhanwar Meghwanshi tells Bhavya Dore how he has become a non-Hindu

Moustache /
Moustache
S Hareesh | Translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil
The Legend of Kuttanad

This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them

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