Reviews

Review of Maria Ressa’s How to Stand up to a Dictator: Beware the bot mob

Mukund Padmanabhan

Book review | Vijay Balan keeps the pace ticking in ‘The Swaraj Spy’

Review of K. Indrapala’s Ancient Tamil Nadu — Glimpses of the Past: Lessons in Tamil history

Inscriptions made by Raja Raja Chola at Brihadeeswara Temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.

Review of Awakening the Blue Tigers — India’s Quest for Football’s Holy Grail: Fandom to the field

Manvir Singh of ATK Mohun Bagan being tackled by Chennaiyin FC players during a match at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai.

Can India qualify for a football World Cup finals? Two writers attempt an answer

Roland Mascarenhas

Review of The Corbett Papers: ‘Carpet saab’ of Kumaon

Mahesh Rangarajan

Review of K. Srilata’s This Kind of Child: The ‘Disability’ Story: The invisible people

Review of K.P. Fabian’s The Arab Spring That Was and Wasn’t: An unfolding drama

Anti-government protesters hold candles as they walk surrounding an Egyptian Army tank at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt.

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Wasim Akram dwells upon cricket, Indo-Pak issues, injuries, an up-down equation with Waqar Younis, match-fixing allegations, and his coaching and commentary stints.

Review of Sultan by Wasim Akram with Gideon Haigh: Reverse swing

K C Vijaya Kumar

A Parsi spread by chef Farokh Talati in his book, Parsi - From Persia to Bombay: Recipes & Tales from the Ancient Culture.

Review | Chef Farokh Talati’s ‘Parsi - From Persia to Bombay’ is an aspirational yet approachable cookbook

Farmers, environmentalists and social activists partially immerse themselves in the Narmada as they protest against dams being built in the river that threaten the livelihoods of local residents, in the village of Chikalda on the border of the Barwani and Dhar districts in Madhya Pradesh.

Review of Nandini Oza’s The Struggle for Narmada: The children of Narmada

In Manjhi’s Mayhem, Tanuj Solanki brings freshness to the noir thriller genre through a politically charged sensibility that is all his own.

Creating mayhem in Mumbai | Review of Tanuj Solanki’s noir thriller ‘Manjhi’s Mayhem’

Iffat Nawaz’s Shurjo’s Clan is a personal history shot through with magic realism.

Review of Iffat Nawaz’s debut novel ‘Shurjo’s Clan’ | An author to watch out for

The author tells the story of how national borders were determined and princely states integrated into the Indian dominion.

Review of We the People of the States of Bharat — The Making and Remaking of India’s Internal Boundaries: A history of India through geography

Review of C. Rangarajan’s Forks in the Road — My Days at RBI and Beyond: An unfinished agenda

Right from the inaugural 1930 edition that host Uruguay won to the previous 2018 championship in Russia, the author highlights the anecdotes that nourish the Beautiful Game’s veins.

Review of Luciano Wernicke’s The Most Incredible World Cup Stories: Football snapshots

K C Vijaya Kumar

The book is a remarkable autobiographical narrative on the biological behaviour of the tiger, its critical role in shaping natural ecosystems, and its presence in our collective imagination.

Review of Ullas Karanth’s Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats: Can the tiger regain its stripes?

Sudhirendar Sharma

Aerial view of the Pudong Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai

A bridge from Mao, Deng to Xi: Review of Vijay Gokhale’s ‘After Tiananmen: The Rise of China’

Climbers make their way to the summit of Mt. Everest.

Life on the edge: Review of ‘Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest’ by Ankit Babu Adhikari and Pradeep Bashyal

Branding it right: Review of Ambi Parameswaran’s new book, ‘All the World’s a Stage’

Joan Sony Cherian

Author-translator Amitabha Bagchi has brought Muneer Niazi’s verses — that capture the deepest emotions with startling revelations — to English, in Lost Paradise.

Turning trauma into verse: Review of Amitabha Bagchi’s English translation of poet Muneer Niazi’s ‘Lost Paradise’

The cover of Udayan Mukherjee’s new novel, No Way In

The malady of emotions: Review of Udayan Mukherjee’s novel ‘No Way In’

Radhika Santhanam