Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Iconic heritage structures such as the Qutb Minar,..
Reviewed by: Amar Farooqui
Manan Ahmed Asif
Manan Ahmed Asif has written aprovocative, though eminently readable, book challenging settled historiographies on Muslim origins in South Asia. ‘Beginnings are a seductive necessity… for the modern nation, the romance of origins and the gravitas of a unique genealogy are imperative,’ Asif declares unambiguously in the opening pages of the book.
Reviewed by: Sayed Areesh Ahmad
Jeeva Anna George and Sheila Kumar
A Gluten Free Life:My Celiac Story lives up to its title. It is the story of Jeeva and her life as a celiac. Anyone from an urban, metropolitan background can relate to the story. In an easygoing narrative, she brings forth the issues persons diagnosed with celiac would encounter.
Reviewed by: Sharat Varma
Santosh K. Bhargava
If a baby is born small and thin, you would want to feed it so it would catch up to a more normal size, right?
Reviewed by: Anju Virmani
Sanjay Manjrekar
Imperfect
2018
2018
In the annals of Indian cricket writing, autobiographies or authorized biographies of cricketers have tended to be boring and boastful accounts. Former cricketer-turned-commentator Sanjay Manjrekar’s Imperfect is not one of these. It has two essential qualities—honesty and self-criticism.
Reviewed by: Rahul Jayaram
Stuart Freedman
I consider myself a lucky person to have grown up in one of those rare towns of North India where the Indian Coffee House survives and flourishes. The Indian Coffee House, which is a worker run cooperative, still functions in about twenty cities of India and has most of its branches in the State of Kerala.
Reviewed by: Sohail Akbar