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MAY 2020

VOLUME XLIV NUMBERS 5 May 2020

May 2020 Issue

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December 28, 2020
An Enduring Vision On A Large Canvas

Purushottam Agrawal’s edited book on Nehru...

May 14, 2020
Shifting Strands in the Global Balance of Power

Over the past few years,..

May 13, 2020
Of A Man Who Punched Above His Weight

This is a very fat book about a very thin man,...

May 13, 2020
A Tribute to a Savant

The work of historians is to deconstruct...

May 13, 2020
Allama’s Quest For Shiva

The title is a misnomer. This tantalizing title of a book...

May 13, 2020
Early History of An Ethno-Linguistic Group

This is a daring outlier of a book...

May 13, 2020
A Complex Portrait

Certain historical events—often, military or strategic in nature...

May 13, 2020
A Turning Point In Indian History

Before Robert Clive slit his jugular,...

May 13, 2020
Of Reconciliation and Repatriation

‘The 1940s’, observes Ashis Nandy, ‘introduced into the South Asian public life a new actor—the refugee.’

May 13, 2020
A Fair Man, But Never Familiar

Bakhtiar Dadabhoy’s political biography of Salar Jung I,...

May 13, 2020
Celebrating Diversity

Divided into four sections, the fifteen essays in Nine Nights of the Goddess...

May 13, 2020
Imitating Life in the City

Gautam Bhatia’s books on architecture in India are, by and large,

May 13, 2020
Colonial Ante-cedents of Indian Secularism

In the abundant literature on secularism that is now...

May 13, 2020
Chronicles of a Resilient State

The tenor of Amandeep Sandhu’s Panjab: Journeys...

May 13, 2020
Wilful Statelessness in Upland North East India

Colonial stereotypical portrayal of the myriad...

May 13, 2020
Uncovering Roots of Populism

This is a timely intervention by Partha Chatterjee...

May 13, 2020
A Pillar of Democracy Under the Scanner

Election Commission of India: Institutionalising Democratic Uncertainties...

May 13, 2020
Actors and Acting in Satyajit Ray’s Cinema

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who has been one cultural icon,...

May 13, 2020
How Humans and Animals are Interconnected

Splendid is not the word. Finally, an exemplary work of research...

May 13, 2020
Tackling Hazards of Urbanization and Industrialization

Ulrich Beck in his much-acclaimed book...

May 13, 2020
Elixir of Great Intellect

‘May the force be with you!’ The last line of the book is not a mere wish...

May 13, 2020
Imagery in a Multitude of Voices

Indu Mallah’s poems give the reader a glimpse of that journey...

May 13, 2020
Indian English: Becoming Local?

Kalpana Mohan’s book explores the growing aspirations for learning...fz

May 15, 2020
A Don Quixote for the Modern Age

Quichotte (pronounced key-shot), as the first page helpfully tells the reader,...

May 14, 2020
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.’...

May 14, 2020
A Gender Defying Expose

This novel—and I’m using this classification as a temporary placeholder...

May 14, 2020
The Indestructible Woman

When in doubt of your mettle, Rimli Gupta’s book, Karno’s Daughter...

May 14, 2020
The Stuff of Mystery and Suspense

Have I died and gone to Heaven,’ I wondered...

July 2, 2020
Tales of a Kind, Gentle World

In 1958, a young boy from a small town in Madhya Pradesh failed...

May 14, 2020
Memorializing a Loved One

Memento Mori is Latin for ‘remember you must die’...

May 14, 2020
A Real-Life Story

Iqbal, aka Sufi and Aabid, the author, grew up in different households in Dongri,...

May 14, 2020
Yet Another Super Detective

There are not many fictional characters that acquire lives of their own...

May 14, 2020
Infinite Variety of Food Traditions

The title and subject of the book stirred up a deep sense of nostalgia in me...

May 14, 2020

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