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Book review
A scholar’s midlife sojourn
A philosophical novel about the experiences of a visiting Indian scholar in a foreign country.
Mary Vidya Porselvi P.
Book review
The South writes back
A highly readable book that serves to redress erasure of the Deccan from popular Indian history.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
BOOK REVIEW
Complex designs
The building styles of mosques and shrines in Kashmir trace historical influences over centuries.
Peerzada Ashiq
Book Review
Pandemic in perspective
It presents an evaluation of the pandemic’s economic fallout and the efficacy of the government’s policies.
Sujoy Chakravarty
Book Review
A Sanskrit classic in English
This translation of the Hitopadesha attests to its vibrant practicality and realism.
Meena Arora Nayak
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Books on the shelves
A range of new writing from post-War Japan to the Mahabharata to the second COVID wave.
Book Review
The invisible boy
The latest novel by Anees Salim devastates with its pithiness, suggesting much more than it says.
Anusua Mukherjee
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‘Book covers not only about great image-editing skills’
An interview with Sunandini Banerjee, graphic artist at Seagull Books.
Devangana Dash
Bridging the gender data gap
This award-winning book talks about the systemic lacunae in data on women and their lives.
Divya Trivedi
A rereading of Kerala modernity
The monograph revisits the all-encompassing influence of the Left but also lays bare its weaknesses.
S Harikrishnan
The fragment in history
It seeks to foreground the unextraordinary, neglected pieces of evidence in the history writing of early India.
Shonaleeka Kaul
Old plot, new yarn
The author has chosen to revive the century-old Bhawal case, interweaving facts with fiction.
Soumitra Das
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