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Book Reviews

Ritual and Catharsis

Aditya Mani Jha

Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman

Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor | Translated by Sophie Hughes
The Cliffhangers /
The Cliffhangers
Sabin Iqbal
On the Beach

A bittersweet tale of four young men and growing religious faultlines in Kerala

The Death of Jesus /
The Death of Jesus
JM Coetzee
Book of Forgetting

In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss

Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased /
Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased
Anita Roy
Search for Home

In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland

The RSS: And the Making of the Deep Nation /
The RSS: And the Making of the Deep Nation
Dinesh Narayanan
Neither Polemical nor Prejudicial

A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS

Suralakshmi Villa /
Suralakshmi Villa
Aruna Chakravarti
House of Spirits

A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance

Soar /
Soar
Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar: ‘There Are No Atheists in the Trenches’

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future /
Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Future Present

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world

White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes /
White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
An Outsider’s Gaze

A contemporary ethnographic work on isolated tribes that trespasses too often

Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology /
Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology
Edited by Prerna Singh Bindra, Sonali Ghosh and Anuranjan Roy
Ode to Nature

A journey across Asia’s most beautiful wildernesses

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