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Wanderers On A Winter’s Night

From the prodigiously bountiful store of Urdu stories comes a collection full of—for the English reader—unread gems and undiscovered authors

Rakshanda Jalil

Apr 16, 2018
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A Sorry End Is The Only Escape

In The Only Story, Barnes’s psychological realism is brutal, but subtle and restrained. In this story about love, his art uses a layered minimalism.

Satish Padmanabhan

Apr 16, 2018
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Not Mei Lin’s Republic

A sweeping novel reaches back to an early Chinese worker in Assam, and tells the story of his hapless descendant and his kinsmen during the 1962 War

Bindu Menon

Apr 09, 2018
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The Saint, The Boozer, The Poet

Ghalib’s protean genius attracts many scholars. Hasan Abdullah impresses with his emotional immersion into, and lucid explication of, the poetry.

M.J. Warsi

Apr 09, 2018
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The Unfinished Road To Delhi

Ashis Ray dismantles the ‘mystery’ of Netaji’s death through an intense scrutiny of evidence. The exiled status of his remains is the real mystery.

Saikat Niyogi

Apr 09, 2018
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Let There Be Franchise For All

The 1951 election was a landmark in history, with the electoral roll becoming a marker of citizenship. This book is a homage to the gargantuan achievement.

S.Y. Quraishi

Apr 09, 2018
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Masterful Two-Front Managers

This detailed book on the US’s Afghan strategy elaborates on the ISI’s shadowy dance of deception, but downplays larger failures of American policy

Manoj Joshi

Apr 02, 2018
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Entire Universes In The Leviathan

Daruwalla’s quietening cynicism has shades of darkening oak; Hoskote’s odyssey churns past worlds

K. Satchidanandan

Apr 02, 2018
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His Life, And Rocket Science

Nambi Narayanan’s career in ISRO is also a history of that national centre of excellence. Then, there are ugly warts—his shameful framing as a spy.

Shobhit Mahajan

Mar 26, 2018
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Spyglass On The Theatre Box

Renoir, and his delicately florid canvases of people at work, play or in repose, are put in their densely striated socio-political context

Sumedh Rajendran

Mar 26, 2018
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Survey Of Upper India

Two by Sheila Dikshit: one is a delightful, though guarded, memoir; another a self-congratulatory coffee-table book

Smita Gupta

Mar 26, 2018
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Under The Knights’ Table

The young intelligence czar and confidant of president Rhee saved America’s day in the Korean conflict. His fall was as steep as his ascent.

Vappala Balachandran

Mar 19, 2018
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Taking Down Sacred Pillars

The author, once swept away by the clarion call to fight against corruption, is wiser with age, and reassesses the main inheritor of the movement

Faraz Ahmed

Mar 19, 2018
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Strapped To The Undercarriage

Complex, hypnotic and neglected, Raza’s Scene 75 speaks of the rank ruthlessness of ’70s Bollywood and the stewing jostle of the middle class

Giridhar Jha

Mar 12, 2018

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