books

Urban Dystopia

Charmy Harikrishnan

Margaret Atwood’s take on freedom versus security gets lost amid a pack of Elvis Presley sex robots

Slapdash Sexuality

Shougat Dasgupta

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

To Break an Absurd Record

Smriti Daniel

Two friends take a leap of faith in this fictionalised memoir

Director’s Cut

Mayank Shekhar

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

In the Land of Blue Hills

Rini Barman

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

Redeeming the Historian From History

Siddharth Singh

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

Passion Play

Ullekh NP

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

Humanist at Home

Shougat Dasgupta

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

Edmund Burke, the 18th century English philosopher-statesman, believed that Indians were systematically exploited by the East India Company, whose abuse of power led to the creation of one of the most degenerate species of government that the civilised world had ever seen