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Book Reviews

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

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

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

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

Poems where the tender is in conversation with the political

Caste Matters /
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde
Dalit Life and Thought

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

Partition Voices: Untold British Stories /
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories
Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri: Breaking the Silence

Kavita Puri chronicles the lives of migrants caught in double displacement

Sita under the Crescent Moon  /
Sita under the Crescent Moon
Annie Ali Khan
Untameable Divinity

A vivid challenge to typical narratives about women’s suffering, sacrifice and spirituality in Pakistan

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