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In search of the real Savarkar

Manu S Pillai

The making of a revolutionary

Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past: 1883-1924
Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past: 1883-1924
Vikram Sampath
Who Killed Liberal Islam? /
Who Killed Liberal Islam?
Hasan Suroor
Missing in Action
Zakia Soman

Hasan Suroor’s call to moderate Muslims for introspection

Looking for Miss Sargam: Stories of Music and Misadventure /
Looking for Miss Sargam: Stories of Music and Misadventure
Shubha Mudgal
Notes of Misadventure
Shikha Kumar

Shubha Mudgal marks her fiction debut with a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek collection of stories set in the Hindustani classical music world

The Testaments /
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood: The New Testament
Rajni George

Margaret Atwood’s sequel to her cult novel is marked by the same urgency of cultural zeitgeist and prophetic resonance that made the publication of the original a literary event 34 years ago

Kashmir’s Untold Story: Declassified /
Kashmir’s Untold Story: Declassified
Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza
What’s at stake for India in China’s water war?
Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza

A thirst for power

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead /
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Riverhead Books
Animal Spirits
S Prasannarajan

Reading Olga Tokarczuk

Animalia Indica: The Finest Animal Stories in Indian Literature /
Animalia Indica: The Finest Animal Stories in Indian Literature
Sumana Roy
Creatures Great and Small
Ranjit Lal

Beastly tales in fiction

The Nickel Boys /
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Brotherhood of Broken Boys
Sanjay Sipahimalani

Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys bears powerful witness to brutality and oppression that are all too real

Out of Syllabus /
Out of Syllabus
Sumana Roy
In Search of Meaning
Poorna Swami

Poems where the tender is in conversation with the political

Caste Matters /
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde
Dalit Life and Thought
Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury

Suraj Yengde delivers lessons on caste and race with a rare liveliness

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