By Rajesh Chaudhary & Vinesh Kumar
Having dedicated six years of painstaking labour in compiling this book, authors Chaudhary and Kumar must be applauded for the outcome.
Reviewed by: Govindan Nair
Edited by Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai
The fourth part showcases the contemporary concerns which colour the modern adaptations of the Mahābhārata.The Bengali intellectual Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya, for instance, tried to weed out the interpolations to construct the Mahābhārata’s Kṛṣṇa as an ideal man and Hindu national icon. However, Ahona Panda notes how this pseudo-historical project
Reviewed by: Kanad Sinha
By Charles Allen
Despite a slightly rambling style and loose prose of the book, exhaustive research is evident emanating from a passion that rebuked any naked manipulation of knowledge. We gain well from the author’s efforts in presenting information on this crucial period of deep histories
Reviewed by: Bishnupriya Basak
By Sohini Chattopadhyay
That teenaged girl was Shaiza Khan, the year was 1988; much of Puthran’s book is about her determination in the face of tremendous cultural, social and political opposition to make space for girls to not only play cricket but take it to a professional level.
Reviewed by: Usha Raman
By Sudha Bharadwaj
Written in notebooks bought from these canteens, the writings bear testimony to her incarceration between November 2018 to February 2020 in Yerawada Jail. As Bharadwaj notes, incarceration is easier to remember through the seasons that it was experienced in (the days just dissolve into one another) and the book is sectioned through the same, while having no particular date or chronology in place.
Reviewed by: Mary Abraham
By K. Hari Kumar
In the second section of the book, ‘The Stories of Satyolu’, Hari Kumar has included a range of interesting folktales and stories of Daivas of Tulu Nadu. Multiple versions of multiple stories, with subtle distinctions, add to the complexity.
Reviewed by: Annie Pruthi