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Dream about me: Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’

Jaideep Unudurti In this centenary year of the invention of the term ‘robot,’ Kazuo Ishiguro presents in his latest novel an Artificial Friend, created to provide companionship to a possible race of forsaken humans

Hopeless in hovels: Janhavi Acharekar reviews Lindsay Pereira’s ‘Gods and Ends’

Janhavi Acharekar With an insider’s familiarity, Lindsay Pereira presents brutally honest vignettes of Mumbai’s Roman Catholic community

Toil A Chinese tea plantation with workers carrying and firing the tea. Engraving by A. Willmore, c. 1840. Wiki Commons

Reviews of ‘Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s’, and ‘Tea-War: A History of Capitalism in China and India’: India’s forgotten China links

Ananth Krishnan With research and anecdotes, two books steer clear of a reductive framing of relations between old neighbours and embrace the complexities

travel ‘Buddha in Gandhara’ review: Journeys on the Silk Road

A writer travels through erstwhile Buddhist domains looking for Indian philosophical influences

‘A Pandemic and the Politics of Life’ review: A raging virus and its impact on the marginalised

Why logistical steps to fight COVID-19 must be accompanied by the state taking responsibility for migrant workers and the poor

The begum and her beast: Anil Menon reviews ‘The Begum and the Dastan’ by Tarana Husain Khan

Anil Menon Cavils apart, this is an immersive novel, remarkable for the thoroughly Muslim world it creates

In search of certainties: Review of ‘The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown’ by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Sreejith Sugunan A compelling examination of the self and the nation under lockdown

Despair: A drought-affected farm in Nashik in 2018.

By the sweat of their brows: Sudipta Datta reviews ‘The Sickle’ by Anita Agnihotri, trs Arunava Sinha

Sudipta Datta Delving into social evils, Anita Agnihotri peels them off, layer by layer

focus ‘B.R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice’ review: Scholar of global relevance

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society ‘India and the Pandemic: The First Year’ review: A deadly pathogen and the difficult path to recovery

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‘Sherlock Holmes Namboothiri’, a Malayalam novel, is rooted in Kerala

Society Reviews

‘Bhed-Bharat — An Account of Injustice and Atrocities on Dalits & Adivasis (2014-2018)’ review: Counting the numbers

spirituality Reviews

‘Carpenters and Kings — Western Christianity and the Idea of India’ review: A political history of a religion

Politics Reviews

‘The RSS — A Menace to India’ review: The enemy within

‘Intimations of Ghalib’ by M. Shahid Alam: ‘He dared to be free’

Family Saga Books

‘Celestial Bodies’ by Jokha Alharthi reviewed by Jerry Pinto: Three sisters of Oman

‘River Wedding’ by Amlanjyoti Goswami reviewed by Manohar Shetty: ‘Car horns bring the sax to life’

With its arresting images, this slim volume marks an interesting debut

‘House of Stars’ by Keya Ghosh reviewed by Vineetha Mokkil: Guns & roses

Stands out as a love story, falls flat as a thriller

‘Cricket Country’ review: Birth of a passion

The circumstances and forces that shaped the diverse first Indian cricket team

‘A New Politics from the Left’ review: Reimagining the Left

A Marxist thinker envisages a civil society built on the principle of egalitarianism

‘Cities and Canopies – Trees in Indian Cities’ review: What nature’s museums teach us

Banking on history, geography, context, two writers explain how cities and trees can co-exist

Of angst and hope

Echmukutty’s revelatory memoir, originally written as a series of Facebook posts, cuts like knife through a traumatic past to uncover some shocking truths

A tryst with evanescence

Gonzalo Rojas is a great Latin American poet from Chile who strikes a different chord than the revolutionary poets

‘Miracle Men – The Greatest Underdog Story in Cricket’ review: Kapil’s Devils and a miracle win

In this retelling, some more memories from India’s 1983 World Cup triumph

‘Evolution of Goods and Services Tax in India’ review: Devising a uniform tax network

It is creditable that the Centre and States could resolve issues surrounding the Goods and Services Tax

‘The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings’ review: Reporting from the afterlife

In the Spanish world, his novels apart, reporter and editor Gabriel García Márquez, was feverishly read and discussed. His journalism now appears in translation

Rail track rhymes

A loco pilot for over 30 years, Sureshkumar G pens his experiences in a collection of poems, Enginemuriyil piranna kavithakal

Speaking of our times

Narahalli Balasubrahmanya’s essay collection is a good representation of several issues

‘Siyasi Muslims’ review: Fractured identity

Politics or religion? What is the cause of negative Muslim portrayals and violence against the community?

‘Lifescapes — Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamil Nadu’: Giving voice to silences

A host of women Tamil writers on life and work, and how they make themselves heard

‘The Satapur Moonstone: Perveen Mistry Investigates’ by Sujata Massey: The case of the missing royals

Mistry is taken out of her comfort zone in the city and dropped in the middle of a ‘saas-bahu’ conflict

‘10 Women Who Changed Science and the World’ review: Sparks from lives in science

On Marie Curie, and other less famous women achievers who made a difference

‘Gun Island’ by Amitav Ghosh: The Bengali merchant in Venice

Ghosh’s new novel throws itself at climate change with all the urgency of a Quixote, and with possibly as much effect

Rethinking Shankara

Without occupying the position of a scholar, but from the vantage point of a creative artist and critical thinker, K.V. Akshara’s Shankara Vihara is an important work

‘Arabia – A Journey Through the Heart of the Middle East’ review: Many faultlines of West Asia

First-hand accounts from Iraq to Lebanon are marred by an Orientalist gaze

The Library Book review: Democratic spaces

The story of the restoration of a library destroyed in a devastating fire also weaves in tales about writing, writers and books

‘The Nine Waves – The Extraordinary Story of Indian Cricket’ review: When India turned a corner

An engaging, in-depth history of our favourite game from its early days to the present

Book review: The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris

Harris’ latest inevitably harks back to ‘Chocolat’ but is also a tale in its own right

Book review: The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa

Might read like one long social media update, but there’s more to it

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan reviewed by Anil Menon: Back to the present

How does one write a sci-fi novel such that it won’t be mistaken for sci-fi?

Knowing the constitution

When there are hardly any non-academic writing about the Constitution Of India, two new books in this subject are a welcome addition

‘Autumn Light - Season of Fire and Farewells’ review: The outsider looks in

Pico Iyer’s measured homage to Japan is also an acceptance of the impermanence of life

‘Sanath Jayasuriya — A Biography’ review: Star turn on the field

How Sanath Jayasuriya made it big and rode the highs and lows of Sri Lankan cricket

‘Eardley Norton — A Biography’ review: The case of a British barrister

A biography of Eardley Norton traces his life, work and the legal history of Madras

Memories that need a new home

You can get your hands on Amar Chitra Katha’s vintage editions at this online auction by Ashvita’s

‘Bells of Shangri-La — Scholars, Spies, Invaders in Tibet’ review: On the steps of intrepid travellers

Bringing to life the journeys and adventures of explorers to Tibet

‘Tamil Characters — Personalities, Politics, Culture’ review: Politics and social justice

Venkatachalapathy gives us a ringside view of Tamil Nadu’s history through its varied personalities

‘Re-forming India — The Nation Today’ review: The idea of a ‘New India’

Is our secular and socialist credentials under threat? What is the state of the economy? Are we undergoing a transformation? Experts critically assess the Modi regime

‘The Carpet Weaver’ by Nemat Sadat review: Poetry of the rented earth

This novel about homosexuality, religious intolerance and political conflicts in Afghanistan, is also about the beauty of life amidst ugliness

Extensions of Wasteland

Crisis, a collection of Greek poems, look at the present day world straight in its face and question, quarrel and re-imagine it

‘Indian Environmental Law — Key Concepts and Principles’ review: Environmental rights and guarantees

What headway have we made on regulation to meet the challenges that natural resource conflicts spark?

‘Caste as Social Capital’ review: The reality of caste inequalities

It’s simplistic to revisit the social system and find virtues in the way it works

‘The Lost Decade (2008-2018)’ review: Slow derailment

A lucid chronicle of India’s underwhelming economic performance for a decade and the reasons why

‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ review: Under the lens of technology

The obsession with power through data is destroying the sanctity of the individual

‘The Barefoot Coach’ review: The art of mentoring

From collaboration to empathy, Paddy Upton reveals the ideal way to coach cricketers

‘The Transformative Constitution — A Radical Biography in Nine Acts’ review: Progressive charter

A re-reading of the Constitution to understand its ability to change lives

‘Ayesha at Last’ by Uzma Jalaluddin: The Bennet bibis of Toronto

It takes off from ‘Pride and Prejudice’, but this polished debut has a life of its own

‘Tune for the Dead’ by Anshul Vijayvargiya & Debashish Irengbam: Dhruv in the groove

This joint project by two crime-show scriptwriters feels a lot like a crisp detective movie

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