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Books Nov.29.19

Secret trails that intrigue

Forests can also hide murky secrets or be the perfect spot for the unravelling of a mystery
By Kamalika Basu
Books Nov.29.19

A view through missing links

The tone of the contributions is extremely academic
By Siddhartha Mitra
Books Nov.26.19

Elton John's rock and roll memoir

More than anything, Elton writes about the perils of leading an insular life with endless money and people around you telling you what you want to hear
By Anup Kutty
Books Nov.22.19

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Shedding new light on a past that refuses to fade

Jallianwala Bagh: An Empire of Fear and the Making of the Amritsar Massacre helps to retrieve the voices of many people whose lives were affected by the 1919 massacre
By Salil Misra
Books Nov.22.19

Speak louder: Female solidarity can help combat sexual harassment

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey involves a recounting of their enquiry into Harvey Weinstein’s sexual offences
By Durba Basu
Books Nov.15.19

Icons of the Indian Right

There is a perception that India is shifting rather swiftly towards the Right in ideology
By Shaikh Mujibur Rehman
Books Nov.15.19

The pros and cons of a declining population

In Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, the authors argue that population decline has both positive and negative consequences
By Archana K. Roy
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

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