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Book Reviews

When a City Sinks

Urvashi Bahuguna

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

This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto /
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta: From America with Love and Anger

Suketu Mehta’s new book provides a corrective narrative about the world’s migrants. He tells why the debate around immigration is a contest of storytelling

Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretence  /
Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretence
Dean Spears
When Breath Becomes Fatal

Author and researcher Dean Spears asserts that India’s air pollution does not merely kill children, it also impacts each generation of survivors

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