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Books Nov.11.19

Cricket country: The original men in blue

Cricket Country: The Untold History of the First All India Team by Prashant Kidambi provides an engrossing account of the All-India XI's tour of England in 1911
By Uddalak Mukherjee
Books Nov.1.19

Arundhati Roy's seditious heart

Roy’s book is a sometimes lyrical, sometimes strident record of a country’s slide from a liberal secular centrist identity to a Hindu nation of capitalist inclination and extreme-right-wing faith
By Brinda Bose
Books Oct.25.19

India’s imagination of itself

India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia presents a realist understanding of the nature of states along with the notion of sharing a communal space of unity
By Nasreen Chowdhory and Meghna Kajla
Books Oct.25.19

The Fate of Butterflies: A mosaic of metaphors

Nayantara Sahgal's latest novel is about an orphan child brought up by missionaries, who has to construct his own ethics and identity through bittersweet experiences in life
By Ameena Kazi Ansari
Books Oct.25.19

India's challenges

Chanakya’s View: Understanding India In Transition is a lazy compilation and not the frank critique it is touted to be
By Tuktuk Ghosh
Books Oct.18.19

The word through flesh and sinew

In A Philosophy of Autobiography, the author presents autobiographical narratives to find out how they engage with the corporal and transmute it into text
By Sonia Sahoo
Books Oct.18.19

Shubha Mudgal's search for Miss Sargam

In Looking for Miss Sargam, Shubha Mudgal spins seven side-splitting yarns about India’s giant music industry
By Soumitra Das
Books Oct.11.19

William Dalrymple's Anarchy: How a single business operation managed to replace the mighty Mughal empire

Dalrymple’s book plays up the conflict between virtue and vice through a juxtaposition of the rapacious soul of the East India Company with the calm fortitude of a defeated but still proud Mughal king
By Madhumita Mazumdar
Books Oct.11.19

Justice for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

The Case that Shook the Empire is essentially concerned with some legal implications of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
By Himadri Banerjee
Books Oct.11.19

A fictional account of Subhash Chandra Bose’s life

Mahanayak: Subhas Chandra Bose — A Novel, by Sahitya Akademi Award winner, Vishwas Patil, is an extremely intelligent attempt at writing well-researched fiction, and not a research-based biography
By Argha Kr. Banerjee

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