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May 2020 Issue
An Enduring Vision On A Large Canvas
Purushottam Agrawal’s edited book on Nehru...
Shifting Strands in the Global Balance of Power
Over the past few years,..
Of A Man Who Punched Above His Weight
This is a very fat book about a very thin man,...
A Tribute to a Savant
The work of historians is to deconstruct...
Allama’s Quest For Shiva
The title is a misnomer. This tantalizing title of a book...
Early History of An Ethno-Linguistic Group
This is a daring outlier of a book...
A Complex Portrait
Certain historical events—often, military or strategic in nature...
A Turning Point In Indian History
Before Robert Clive slit his jugular,...
Of Reconciliation and Repatriation
‘The 1940s’, observes Ashis Nandy, ‘introduced into the South Asian public life a new actor—the refugee.’
A Fair Man, But Never Familiar
Bakhtiar Dadabhoy’s political biography of Salar Jung I,...
Celebrating Diversity
Divided into four sections, the fifteen essays in Nine Nights of the Goddess...
Imitating Life in the City
Gautam Bhatia’s books on architecture in India are, by and large,
Colonial Ante-cedents of Indian Secularism
In the abundant literature on secularism that is now...
Chronicles of a Resilient State
The tenor of Amandeep Sandhu’s Panjab: Journeys...
Wilful Statelessness in Upland North East India
Colonial stereotypical portrayal of the myriad...
Uncovering Roots of Populism
This is a timely intervention by Partha Chatterjee...
A Pillar of Democracy Under the Scanner
Election Commission of India: Institutionalising Democratic Uncertainties...
Actors and Acting in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema
Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who has been one cultural icon,...
How Humans and Animals are Interconnected
Splendid is not the word. Finally, an exemplary work of research...
Tackling Hazards of Urbanization and Industrialization
Ulrich Beck in his much-acclaimed book...
Elixir of Great Intellect
‘May the force be with you!’ The last line of the book is not a mere wish...
Imagery in a Multitude of Voices
Indu Mallah’s poems give the reader a glimpse of that journey...
Indian English: Becoming Local?
Kalpana Mohan’s book explores the growing aspirations for learning...fz
A Don Quixote for the Modern Age
Quichotte (pronounced key-shot), as the first page helpfully tells the reader,...
Of the Frailties of Life and Living
‘I write to … express that part of women’s lives which is often buried and endured in silence.’...
A Gender Defying Expose
This novel—and I’m using this classification as a temporary placeholder...
The Indestructible Woman
When in doubt of your mettle, Rimli Gupta’s book, Karno’s Daughter...
The Stuff of Mystery and Suspense
Have I died and gone to Heaven,’ I wondered...
Tales of a Kind, Gentle World
In 1958, a young boy from a small town in Madhya Pradesh failed...
Memorializing a Loved One
Memento Mori is Latin for ‘remember you must die’...
A Real-Life Story
Iqbal, aka Sufi and Aabid, the author, grew up in different households in Dongri,...
Yet Another Super Detective
There are not many fictional characters that acquire lives of their own...
Infinite Variety of Food Traditions
The title and subject of the book stirred up a deep sense of nostalgia in me...