By Ankur Warikoo

Marketed as a real-life practical manual for teenagers, Beyond the Syllabus proves to be apt even for adults dealing with such questions.


Reviewed by: Rohini Rangachari Karnik
By Saisudha Acharya. Illustrations by Rohit Bhasi

It highlights the silting of rivers and the changing of their courses, which students would otherwise read about without really understanding the phenomena as they happened in the past, or reflecting on them through the prism of today’s disasters.


Reviewed by: Lakshmi Subramaniam
By Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Shobita Punja and Toby Sinclair

The initial couple of chapters on the protohistoric period of India, viz. the Harappan Civilization (‘Harappan Culture’, pp. 25-42) and the Rig-Vedic period (‘Society and Ideas in the Age of the Vedas’, pp. 43-48), are important in that they lay bare several myths pertaining to these ages.


Reviewed by: Amol Saghar
By Ruby Lal. Illustrations by Molly Crabapple

From being one among many, Mihr rose to become the favourite wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, who married her in the sixth year of his reign subsequent to the demise of Ali Quli Beg. Sharing an extraordinary, sensitive relationship with his twentieth wife,


Reviewed by: Meena Bhargava
By Lavanya Karthik. Cover illustration and design by Samar Bansal

Here, fictionalizing a historical event draws young readers into the folds of India’s unique victory in overthrowing the British Empire. There is little knowledge about the salt marchers, which is appropriately covered by fictional elements. It does not distort history


Reviewed by: Ira Saxena