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Books

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

Lisbeth Salander and Literary Vampirism

Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup

Forever Manto

What is it that makes him an enduring literary icon of compassion and empathy?

The Gospel According to Poddar

The amazing story of a man and his publishing house that reshaped Hindu nationalism

The Master and His Magnifying Glass

This 1930s chronicle of a lower middle class youth brings out the genius of novelist and playwright Upendranath Ashk, known as the Proust of Hindi literature

All’s Fair in War and Peace

An ambitious historical novel takes on the 20th century’s two great wars, with some hiccups

Late Harvest

A pioneering Dalit autobiography that offers a remarkable narrative on the many aspects of truth

The Raj Retold

The writings of John Lang, who recorded the unexpected and the absurd of British India

Mourn the Dismal Science

Economists can’t regain their credibility unless they give up their physics envy

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