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Book Reviews

The Big Little Stories

Devapriya Roy

Manu S Pillai chronicles historical characters against the amnesia of time

Quichotte /
Quichotte
Salman Rushdie
Rushdie’s Quest

Cervantes gets a worthy successor

Plastic Emotions /
Plastic Emotions
Shiromi Pinto
The Missing Frame

Shiromi Pinto’s new novel examines feminist icon and architect Minnette de Silva

Rivers Remember: The Shocking Truth of a Manmade Flood /
Rivers Remember: The Shocking Truth of a Manmade Flood
Krupa Ge
When a City Sinks

Chronicling Chennai’s flood and the many failures of multiple stakeholders to mitigate and respond to the disaster

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire /
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple
East India Company: The Evil Empire

The White-Brown nexus comes alive in William Dalrymple’s compelling portrait of the East India Company

Superior: The Return of Race Science /
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini
‘There is no biological basis to race’

Angela Saini dismantles notions of ethnicity and colour in her latest book. The author in conversation with Bhavya Dore

Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra Series— Book III) /
Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra Series— Book III)
Amish Tripathi
The Allure of the Anti-Hero

Amish Tripathi uses mythology to deliver modern lessons

Blue is Like Blue: Stories /
Blue is Like Blue: Stories
Vinod Kumar Shukla | Translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai
Strangely Familiar

When the everyday seems like a hyper-real dream

Daura /
Daura
Anukrti Upadhyay
Heat and Dust

Stories that transform the harsh desert into a mystical world

Underland: A Deep Time Journey /
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane: The Life Below

Robert Macfarlane descends into dark depths to tell a compelling story of the present

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