Paleogenetics is evolutionary sleuthing. The way DNA sequencing throws light back into the foggy paths of prehistory is explained lucidly by a practitioner.
Like Ambedkar, Bagul rudely tears off the romantic veil from villages and depicts a ruthless system of exploitation, indignities and hopeless rebellion
Das’s erudite treatise on the nature of desire—its opposite pulls and its shape in literature—is weakly illumined by a fictional prop with cardboard characters