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Books

Slapdash Sexuality

Shougat Dasgupta

A thoughtless potboiler of a novel that doesn’t ask moral questions of its characters

To Break an Absurd Record

Two friends take a leap of faith in this fictionalised memoir

Director’s Cut

This reassessment of Hrishikesh Mukherjee will inspire you to binge on his ever-relevant movies

In the Land of Blue Hills

This collection of stories brings out the enchantments of a faraway cultural zone

Redeeming the Historian From History

The much-misunderstood Sir Jadunath Sarkar gets his due—finally

Her Mahabharata

Karthika Nair retells the epic in verse with a feminist and subaltern perspective

Passion Play

Anand Ranganathan’s latest novel is a gripping tale of love and war set in the backdrop of the Mizo insurgency

The Outsider

This book on the year of liberalisation misses the secrets of Narasimha Rao’s agenda

Humanist at Home

Sunjeev Sahota’s Booker-shortlisted novel tells the story of illegal immigrants in Britain

Those Brave Men in Olive Green

What it was like defending India fifty years ago

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