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Books Mar.27.20

A lost history of resistance from the Mughal past

Kanekar presents a lucid account of the dubious credentials of people associated with the Mughal court
By Raziuddin Aquil
Books Mar.27.20

Presenting V.P. Menon through the sparkle of embellishment

This book is undoubtedly one step forward for India’s historiography
By Tuktuk Ghosh
Books Mar.20.20

Invisible people and their stories

What makes Amnesty a significant book is Aravind Adiga’s scathing indictment of Australia’s hypocrisies
By Srimoyee Bagchi
Books Mar.20.20

The ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films

The book is thorough in its research and although women-centric, it can be rewardingly used for any serious study of Hindi films in particular and Indian films in general
By Bhaswati Chakravorty
Books Mar.20.20

A continuity in inappropriate policies

In All the Wrong Turns, the authors ask why does the Indian economy have repeated crises every decade. Their answer, in short, is that the policies are erroneous
By Anup Sinha
Books Mar.13.20

One more win for Jack Reacher

Child’s success with the protagonist lies in his ability to reinvent the same formula again and again
By Nayantara Mazumder
Books Mar.13.20

Minorities in India: A prolonged fight for fairness

A non-factual reading of Indian democracy would say that the majority did not see itself as the historical bearer of the ethos, norms, and the grammar of life
By Zubair Ahmad
Books Mar.13.20

The great Mughal's reign of light

Akbar's life extraordinaire unfolds chronologically in six phases
By Sugata Bose
Books Mar.6.20

Blueprints of an uprising

The edited volume by S.Z.H. Jafri brings together 22 articles related to the Great Revolt
By Shantanu Chakrabarti
Books Mar.6.20

A fine aftertaste

Borges’s novel is a paean to their marginality, to the celebration of a togetherness that emerges from a sense of abandonment and neglect
By Sumit Chakrabarti

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