This edition of The Book Review (TBR)
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VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2020
From Allahabad to IAS–Or Bust
The title of this novelistic memoir written in Hindi...
Hinduism Explained in ‘A Conversational Mode’
In these volatile times, when every word written...
Journey to Far Away Places
Manav Kaul is not a regular writer in a sense...
Gyan: Questions that May Never be Answered
Gyan ka Gyan is a multi-nodal intervention...
A Saga of Loss and Survival
Coolie Lines is an extensively researched non-fiction...
Searching for a River of a Thousand Faces
Can the centuries old song of a humble washerman...
Melding Medical History and Speculative Fiction
Synapse: Ratan Oak Stories is my first encounter...
Lessons from the Partition
In July 1947 an accomplished lawyer from England made his first...
Metamorphosis of Lives
When I began reading this novel, I realized the novel gave access...
Of Unsanctioned Memories and an Uncommon Love
Richard Sike’s achingly beautiful poem ‘Scheherazade’...
Exploring Multiple Streams of Self-Truth
Reading Anamika is like getting back to a world of memories...
Rural Life and its Multi-layered Struggle
Many novels portray changes which have occurred in different...
A Saga of Love or a Polemic?
Bhalchandra Joshi’s Hindi novel Jas Ka Phool (2019) addresses...
Love in the Times of Hatred
Pankaj Subeer’s novel Jinhe Jurm-e-Ishq pe Naaz...
Contemporary Politics in India
Keelein (Nails), a collection of short stories...
REC-VoW Book Awards 2021
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A Community on the ‘Margins of Patriarchy’
Tawaifnama is born out of Saba Dewan’s trilogy...
Foundational Moments in Empire Building*
In September 1499 Vasco da Gama returned to Lisbon...
On a Sweeping Canvas
Who is TR Shankar Raman, the author of The Wild Heart of India?...
The Danger of a Single Story*2
Yashica Dutt’s compellingly gritty tale offers points...
Tackling Hazards of Urbanization and Industrialization*3
Ulrich Beck in his much-acclaimed book Risk Society...
An Honourable ‘Afterlife’
Ship of Sorrows is the English translation of Qurratulain Hyder’s second novel,..
Commemorating a Dark Moment in India’s History
Writers and poets have always taken note of history...
From the Pen of the Writer of Mayyazhi
Mukundan’s latest offering in translation is a collection...
Coherence of Form and Content
The story of being useless + three contexts of a writer is a translation...
An Affair to Remember
Few historical epochs of India have drawn as much attention...
A Metaphor for History
The accepted wisdom about Vijay Tendulkar’s plays is that they are about power and violence...
The Trauma of the Landless
As lecturers and critics, we routinely perform...
Intertwining Life and Fiction
From the very beginning, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s writing grips you...
The Chronicle of Dying Wells
An ardent Punjabi, having lived all my life outside of the Punjab...
Of Cultural Nostalgia of the Exiled
When the characters the author weaves in Lajja...
Of a Dystopian Noir World*
Gender-based violence has taken many forms...
Travails of Lost Childhood
There are hardly any women fiction writers in Hindi...
Traversing Tales
Sudha Om Dhingra is an Indian diasporic writer from Jalandhar...
Bursting Idealistic Bubbles
Mumbai City is arrested by a sooty grey haze...
Celebrating Women*
The Daughter from a Wishing Tree is the fourth in a series of books...
Animals and Their Relationship with Humans*
As someone who has never been drawn to reading non-fiction personally...
Announcements
The Book Review Literary Trust is pleased to announce the winning entries for the Short Story Competition 2019:
First Prize (Rs.10000): Megalomania, by JoBeth Ann Warjri
Second Prize (Rs.7500): Not A Day For Outings, by Armaan
Third Prize (Rs.5000): Her Day, by Santanu Das
Congratulations!
We will be reaching out to the winners individually.
We would like to thank all participants for an overwhelming and enthusiastic response.
First Prize (Rs.10000): Megalomania, by JoBeth Ann Warjri
Second Prize (Rs.7500): Not A Day For Outings, by Armaan
Third Prize (Rs.5000): Her Day, by Santanu Das
Congratulations!
We will be reaching out to the winners individually.
We would like to thank all participants for an overwhelming and enthusiastic response.